Coronial inquest into Bondi Junction stabbing continues

The coronial inquest into last year's Bondi Junction Westfield stabbing attack, is continuing to hear from centre management and security today.

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00:00Well, the New South Wales coroner will continue hearing from representatives of Centre Group

00:07and Glad Group, the companies which run the Bondi Junction Westfield Shopping Centre and

00:13the security subcontractor there at the centre as well.

00:16The coroner has been hearing about the immediate security response to Joel Couchy's stabbing

00:23attack and yesterday heard that an armed attacker alarm system didn't ring out through the shopping

00:29centre until about 15 minutes after attacker Joel Couchy was shot dead by Police Inspector

00:35Amy Scott.

00:36We heard from witnesses from the centre management group saying that of course in hindsight they

00:43would have liked to have done things differently but at the time it felt like it had gone very

00:48very quickly.

00:50We of course know that tragically one of these security officers who responded to Joel Couchy's

00:55attack for us to hear was killed on that day, another of his colleagues was injured and

01:02so this is no doubt very difficult evidence for colleagues of those men to be giving, very

01:08difficult evidence for those involved to be hearing as well.

01:12And so the coroner will continue looking at the immediate security response to the attack

01:18throughout today, she's also expected to this week continue hearing evidence from further

01:23NSW Police and NSW Ambulance witnesses as well.

01:29This is the second of five weeks of hearings as the coroner continues to investigate the tragedy

01:37in Bondi Junction Westfield last April.

01:41There will no doubt be many more questions to be asked and answered as this investigation

01:46continues.