Bourke Street attacker was having ‘hallucinations’ before stabbing rampage, wife tells inquest

The man who went on a stabbing spree in Melbourne’s Bourke Street in November 2018 was sweeping his home and car for listening devices in the lead-up to the attack, having “hallucinations”, and looking at radical Islamic content shared with him by his wife, an inquest has heard.

Hassan Khalif Shire Ali drove his ute, carrying gas bottles, into the CBD and set fire to it before stabbing three people…