The proprietor of a knife-sharpening enterprise in Queensland, the place Cauchi lived till a month in the past, instructed The Guardian Australia that Cauchi was an “odd” and “unusual” man who got here into the store roughly three years in the past to get his two “on a regular basis knives” sharpened.
“Which I believed was bizarre,” the proprietor recalled. “He wasn’t a chef or a butcher. He goes, ‘Oh no, I simply do a little bit of dabbling within the yard with the knives and I take advantage of them on daily basis.’ … His expressions, he was simply very obscure, I suppose you could possibly say. No actual persona about him, simply bizarre.”
Cauchi reportedly referred to as the police when his household tried to take a number of knives away from him and conceal them in early 2023.