Hardest decision to make
It was a decision no one should have to make.
But with his critically injured wife on the way to one hospital after the Bondi Junction stabbing attack and their baby daughter to another, Ashlee Good’s husband was forced to make the impossible choice.
Dan Flanagan got to Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital on Saturday to see his wife before she succumbed to her horrific injuries and died before making it to surgery.
The distraught man was then whisked across the city in a police car to the Children’s Hospital at Randwick where baby Harriet, nine months, was being treated for stab wounds to her stomach.
It is understood the baby’s grandmother was with her until Mr Flanagan arrived.
More details of the desperate hours after killer Joel Cauchi, 40, went on a rampage at the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre were revealed on Tuesday as a second round of cleaners was brought in before it could reopen to the general public.
CCTV footage capturing every move by Cauchi from when he entered the centre at 3.20pm until he was gunned down by hero police officer Inspector Amy Scott 25 minutes later has been seized by police.
Multiple police sources who have seen the vision said the crazed killer was indiscriminate in his slashing.
“You see him cut someone on the face, then drive the blade into the next person ... it’s brutal, frenzied,” the source said. “The crime scene is huge... there’s 18 people who have been stabbed, it’s horrific in there.”
Cauchi’s attack claimed the lives of Ms Good, 38, fashion worker Dawn Singleton, 25, architect Jade Young, 47, security officer Faraz Tahir, 30, artist Pikria Darchia, 55 and university student Yixuan Cheng, 27.