Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing: Benjamin Cohen reaches 解決／入植地 with Seven after he was wrongly identified as the 殺し屋

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A student wrongly 指名するd by Channel Seven?as the crazed Bondi Junction 集まり 殺し屋 has settled with the 網状組織 for an 公表されていない 量.

Benjamin Cohen's 指名する was wrongly linked to the April 13 attack - which killed five women and one man - by Sunrise co-host Matt Shirvington?すぐに after 6am the に引き続いて day.

The shocking 失敗 was repeated by 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Lucy McLeod 10 minutes later.?

Seven 認める in a 非常に長い 陳謝 to Mr Cohen on Friday that it only 設立する out their mistake when his mother rang their newsroom.

Mr Cohen engaged two of Australia's 真っ先の defamation lawyers, Patrick George of Giles George as his solicitor and 告訴する Chrysanthou SC as barrister, to 追求する a civil 事例／患者 against the 網状組織.

A 関心s notice was sent to Seven last week, with the 網状組織 on Friday 明らかにする／漏らすing it has settled with the university student but that the 条件 were confidential.

Queensland man Joel Cauchi, 40, has since been identified as the man in an Australian Kangaroos rugby league jersey who went on a murderous rampage through the popular Sydney eastern 郊外s shopping centre.?

Benjamin Cohen (pictured) was wrongly identified by internet sleuths as the knifeman behind the Bondi Junction Westfield attack

The knifeman (pictured during the attack) was 明らかにする／漏らすd to be 40-year-old Joel Cauchi

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Hours after Seven's 誤った 報告（する）／憶測s, NSW Police 大臣 Yasmin Catley 確認するd that Cauchi was the 攻撃者 who was 発射 dead by hero police officer Amy Scott.

Seven 問題／発行するd an on-空気／公表する 陳謝 to Mr Cohen later that Sunday read by reporter Sarah Jane Bell during a live cross.

'Earlier this morning, 報告（する）／憶測s of the 出来事/事件 incorrectly 指名するd the 悪党／犯人 as 40-year-old Benjamin Cohen,' she said on 空気／公表する.

'It was later 確認するd that the 指名する of the 40-year-old is Joel Cauchi from Queensland. Seven apologises for any 苦しめる 原因（となる）d by our earlier 報告（する）／憶測s.'

In their 陳謝 to Mr Cohen on Friday, Seven said it had 'made 試みる／企てるs to find a 接触する number for you but did not have one until your mother rang the newsroom'.

Online trolls on the night of the attack wrongly identified Mr Cohen and his 指名する 傾向d on X, 以前は known as Twitter.

Mr Cohen told マスコミ earlier this week that he had been inundated with friend requests and messages on social マスコミ.

'It's just gone crazy, it's like 'look, you've got the wrong guy',' said Mr Cohen, a first year computer science student.

'People don't really think too hard about what they're 地位，任命するing and how it might 影響する／感情 someone. It's very dangerous how people could just make stuff up and destroy people's lives.'

Sunrise host Matt Shirvington wrongly 指名するd Mr Cohen as the 攻撃者 during the 網状組織's ニュース報道

Seven's new managing director and 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Jeff Howard, who took over after James Warburton stepped 負かす／撃墜する last week, said the error was a '墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な mistake and 完全に without basis.'?

'Seven 身を引くs the 誤った 主張s unreservedly and apologises to you for the 害（を与える） you and your family have 苦しむd as a result of Seven's 声明s about you,' he said in the letter 解放（する）d by Mr Cohen's lawyers.

He explained a Seven 生産者 wrongly assumed （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） 広まる online had been 確認するd to be 訂正する.?

'This led to the 傾向 on Seven's broadcast news at だいたい 6.05am and 6.15am of the words referred to in the 関心s notice and for a short time on Seven's social マスコミ,' he said.

'The error quickly became 明らかな and no その上の broadcast of the 指名する 'Benjamin Cohen' was made in Seven's 現在進行中の news ニュース報道.?

Seven made 試みる／企てるs to find a 接触する number for you but did not have one until your mother rang the newsroom.

'Seven's staff, 含むing 特に its on-空気／公表する presenters Mr Shirvington and Ms [Lucy] McLeod, are 荒廃させるd that the error was made and that it has 影響する／感情d you.

'Seven wishes to 保証する you that the error 起こる／始まるd at the 生産者 level and that Seven's presenters were in no way 伴う／関わるd in 示唆するing or scripting the words which were publ ished.

'Both Mr Shirvington and Ms McLeod にもかかわらず wish to 申し込む／申し出 their own personal 陳謝 to you for the 傷つける and 苦しめる 原因（となる）d.?

'Whilst Seven does not 示唆する that it is 関連した to your reaction, we にもかかわらず 公式文書，認める that the staff members 伴う／関わるd are 深く，強烈に remorseful and traumatised by the mistake.'