Police officer who killed Bondi Junction stabber had ‘resigned myself to the fact that I was probably going to die’

Insp Amy Scott, who shot Joel Cauchi in April 2024, tells Sydney inquest she was trained to stop the killing, stop the dying'

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The police officer who shot and killed Joel Cauchi minutes after he had stabbed 16 people in a Sydney shopping centre was on her own" and believed she was going to be killed, a court has been told.

Six people were killed by 40-year-old Cauchi, who was schizophrenic, at Bondi Junction's Westfield shopping centre on 13 April 2024.

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