Man ‘targeted women’ in Sydney shopping centre stabbing spree

Schizophrenic Sydney knife attacker Joel Cauchi (40) was a teacher who turned to male escort work

Dr Ashlee Good was pushing her nine-month-old daughter in a pram when both were attacked. Photo: PA

Holly Evans and Andrea Hamblin
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The man who carried out a stabbing spree in a Sydney shopping centre seems to have singled out women as targets, Australian police said today as the nation mourned the victims.

New South Wales police said “it’s obvious to detectives” that the offender, Joel Cauchi, 40, focused on women and avoided the men as he went on a rampage in the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction complex.