Joel Cauchi’s GP says psychiatrist didn’t relay mother’s concerns about Bondi Junction mass murderer

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Dr Richard Grundy tells Sydney inquest psychiatrist never called him to discuss Cauchi’s ongoing care and ‘I thought Joel was well’

A Queensland general practitioner who treated Joel Cauchi for 15 years says he would have been “very concerned” about a possible decline in his schizophrenic patient’s mental health had he been told about concerns raised by his mother.

Dr Richard Grundy told the coronial inquest into seven deaths at a Sydney shopping centre in April 2024 that he last saw Cauchi in Toowoomba in August 2019 – when he had been “reasonably well and stable”.

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