Security guard’s Bondi Junction triple-zero call could have confused police, inquest hears

<p>Counter-terrorism expert tells inquest into 2024 stabbing attack by Joel Cauchi guard ‘talks about shots being fired with an armed offender’ in triple-zero call</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/may/19/australia-news-live-albanese-zelenskyy-europe-pope-coalition-sussan-ley-nuclear-power-net-zero-ntwnfb">Australia news live: latest politics updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>A triple-zero call made by a security control room operator on duty at Westfield Bondi Junction was made too late and was so unclear it risked confusing police into thinking there was another attacker armed with a gun still at large inside the shopping centre, a counter-terrorism expert has said.</p><p>The security officer, who cannot be named, had left the control room for a toilet break when Joel Cauchi, 40, launched his stabbing attack at the Sydney shopping centre in April 2024 that killed six people and injured 10 others.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/19/bondi-junction-stabbing-inquest-security-guard-phone-call-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>