EXCLUSIVE
Westfield Bondi Junction killer’s father Joel Cauchi has branded him a “mongrel dog mass murderer” as he opens almost 10 months after his son’s bloody rampage that killed six people.
Andrew Cauchi spoke exclusively to Daily Mail Australia from his Toowoomba home in Queensland, and revealed why his son does not have a grave.
Cauchi also revealed why he will not attend the impending inquest into the deaths of the six people his son killed before he was shot dead by a police officer.
Cauchi, 40, stabbed 18 people during his savage attack on weekend shoppers in Sydney’s eastern suburbs on the afternoon of Saturday, April 13 last year.
“Joel will be remembered as a mass murderer because that’s what he is,” Andrew Cauchi said. “He’s a mongrel, a bastard of a man for killing people.”
Cauchi said he and his wife, Michele, had their son’s body embedded to prevent there from being a grave for anyone to visit or vandalize.
“We don’t want anyone to damage his tombstone,” he added.
He said he was unsure of the exact location of his son’s ashes.
Joel Cauchi, 40, stabbed 18 people during a violent rampage at WestSeNer shoppers at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney’s east on the afternoon of Saturday, April 13 last year

Andrew Cauchi says he has now worked out what happened to make his son Joel (pictured) become a “mongrel dog mass murderer”
“I don’t want them in the house, it’s too painful,” he said. ‘Maybe sometimes it’s better not to know.
“And if no one mentions my son again, I would be happy because everything is a big pain.”
The NSW coroner will open an inquest in April just days after the first anniversary of the murders of Cheng Yixuan, 27, Pikria Darchia, 55, Dawn Singleton, 25, Jade Young, 47, Faraz Ahmed Tahir, 30, and Ashlee Good, 38 , 38, who saved the life of her nine-month-old daughter, Harriet, after they were both stabbed by Cauchi.
“I won’t go (to the investigation) because I would be crying all the time,” Cauchi said. I would be crying. I loved my son.
‘Joel was such a compassionate lovely guy. Then he got sick. I hated being schizophrenic. But that’s not why he killed.
“Six months before he killed, he told us that I no longer believe in God and that’s when I told my wife that we need to close the bedroom door so she would be safe.
“(But) I thought it was a suicide, not a mass murder.”

Andrew Cauchi said he had found a vital clue to Joel’s mentality in what he had been told by the lone armed shopper who had confronted the knife-pushing son on the mall escalator.
The day after her son’s deadly rampage, Cauchi told Daily Mail Australia: “I don’t know why I would do this.”
Now, however, he believes he finally has an answer after a vital clue came from the brave lone shopper who faced the knife on an escalator at the shopping centre.
CCTV shows the man at the top of the escalator threatening Cauchi with a bollard as he approached with his knife in his hand.
Bollard’s man was later identified as French construction worker Damien Guerot, who stopped Cauchi’s rise with the help of his friend, Silas Despreaux.
Later, Guerot said he saw Cauchi’s ’empty eyes’.
“It wasn’t there,” Guerot said.
Cauchi’s father now believes his son was in a religious trance, rather than having a psychotic episode, during the murderous attack.
‘It wasn’t schizophrenia. It was in the spiritual realm,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.

Joel Cauchi killed six people, including Ashlee Good, who died protecting her nine-month-old daughter Harriet, who was injured in the knife rampage
‘I was fighting satanic demons and they won. He must have thought it was his schizophrenia, but now I’m sure it wasn’t.
‘Joel needed help from the church when the demon attacked him. He lost his battle and Satan used him.
Cauchi said her son had been a popular child as a teenager before his mental illness diagnosis at the age of 17.
He had played soccer and indoor hockey, scoring four goals during a 5:1 Premier League victory, and studied German and Mandarin with the aim of working in Canberra as a political assistant.
“Everyone who knew him loved him,” Cauchi said.
“He was very popular with girls, but he went from being extremely popular to not having a girl when he got schizophrenia.”
Cauchi said that after years of antipsychotic drugs, under the supervision of a psychiatrist, the family helped Joel safely withdraw from the medications.
‘I helped him get off his drugs, his body started working, he started chasing women, he got his brain back.
“It unraveled because after my son got off drugs… and was enjoying his life again, he turned his back on God.”

Inspector Amy Scott ordered Cauchi to drop his gun, when he turned and raised his knife, the officer shot and killed him.
NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott was the first officer on the scene when Cauchi began stabbing random strangers about 3.20pm at Westfield Bondi Junction.
Inspector Scott followed him and chased him until he cornered him outside an arts store where she ordered him to drop his gun.
When he turned around and raised his knife, the officer shot and killed him.
Later, Cauchi said Insp Scott did the right thing and he gave him no hard feelings.
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