Jessica Taylor: I’m a psychologist and I can tell you what’s really to blame for the Sydney stabbings

I’m a psychologist, writes Dr Jessica Taylor – and I can tell you that attacks like these are rarely ‘random’, ‘unpredictable’, ‘unrelated’ and ‘unpreventable’. The real ‘monster’ here is misogyny

A girl and a woman place flowers as a tribute near a crime scene at Bondi Junction in Sydney

Jessica Taylor
© UK Independent

Devastating events unfolded this weekend as 40-year-old Joel Cauchi raged through Bondi Junction Westfield in Sydney on a Saturday afternoon, stabbing 18 people. So far, the majority of victims, both dead and in critical conditions in hospital, have been women and girls.

I watched the footage in disbelief, the background horribly familiar. I was in Bondi Junction myself, a few months back, while on a book tour with my wife.