What the Martin Place Lindt cafe siege investigation will look at
A detailed psychological profile of Monis will be worked up by psychiatrist Dr Jonathan Phillips using Monis' medical records and observations from another experienced forensic psychiatrist, Dr Michael Diamond, who was on the scene at Martin Place and assisted police during the siege.
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He believed the two women, who were among those Monis used to speak to negotiators, had started to develop signs of so-called Stockholm syndrome.
“Their position was one of excessive and gratuitous alliance with the hostage taker … they certainly weren’t helping,” the psychiatrist said.
The same psychiatrist had earlier told the inquiry he didn’t listen to escaped hostage Paolo Vassalo’s claims Monis was “not walking out” because he was “babbling”.
“I wouldn’t take his threat assessment seriously,” he said.
Mr Johnson’s family’s lawyer Dr Peggy Dwyer yesterday put it to the psychiatrist that Ms Mikhael and Ms Win Pe were becoming more upset in their calls on behalf of Monis, who had demanded an Islamic State flag.
“Increasingly dramatic,” the psychiatrist said. He said a listening device hidden in the cafe picked up conversations showing things were “not as dramatic as they made out”.
The same psychiatrist had earlier told the inquiry he didn’t listen to escaped hostage Paolo Vassalo’s claims Monis was “not walking out” because he was “babbling”.
“I wouldn’t take his threat assessment seriously,” he said.
Mr Johnson’s family’s lawyer Dr Peggy Dwyer yesterday put it to the psychiatrist that Ms Mikhael and Ms Win Pe were becoming more upset in their calls on behalf of Monis, who had demanded an Islamic State flag.
“Increasingly dramatic,” the psychiatrist said. He said a listening device hidden in the cafe picked up conversations showing things were “not as dramatic as they made out”.
“I don’t know if they were posturing or they weren’t but they certainly weren’t helping,” he said.
A detailed psychological profile of Monis will be worked up by psychiatrist Dr Jonathan Phillips using Monis' medical records and observations from another experienced forensic psychiatrist, Dr Michael Diamond, who was on the scene at Martin Place and assisted police during the siege.
We’re for Sydney | Daily Telegraph
He believed the two women, who were among those Monis used to speak to negotiators, had started to develop signs of so-called Stockholm syndrome.
“Their position was one of excessive and gratuitous alliance with the hostage taker … they certainly weren’t helping,” the psychiatrist said.
The same psychiatrist had earlier told the inquiry he didn’t listen to escaped hostage Paolo Vassalo’s claims Monis was “not walking out” because he was “babbling”.
“I wouldn’t take his threat assessment seriously,” he said.
Mr Johnson’s family’s lawyer Dr Peggy Dwyer yesterday put it to the psychiatrist that Ms Mikhael and Ms Win Pe were becoming more upset in their calls on behalf of Monis, who had demanded an Islamic State flag.
“Increasingly dramatic,” the psychiatrist said. He said a listening device hidden in the cafe picked up conversations showing things were “not as dramatic as they made out”.
The same psychiatrist had earlier told the inquiry he didn’t listen to escaped hostage Paolo Vassalo’s claims Monis was “not walking out” because he was “babbling”.
“I wouldn’t take his threat assessment seriously,” he said.
Mr Johnson’s family’s lawyer Dr Peggy Dwyer yesterday put it to the psychiatrist that Ms Mikhael and Ms Win Pe were becoming more upset in their calls on behalf of Monis, who had demanded an Islamic State flag.
“Increasingly dramatic,” the psychiatrist said. He said a listening device hidden in the cafe picked up conversations showing things were “not as dramatic as they made out”.
“I don’t know if they were posturing or they weren’t but they certainly weren’t helping,” he said.
