Australian man jailed for 10 months for filming and gloating over dying police officers
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Australian Richard Pusey has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for filming and gloating over four dying police officers after a fatal crash last year.
Judge Trevor Wraight described his actions as “heartless, cruel and disgraceful during the sentencing hearing on Wednesday.
“A normal human reaction… would likely be to immediately telephone triple zero (the emergency services),” the judge said. “What you did, however, was film the scene with a running commentary.”
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The 42-year-old, who was described as “Australia’s most hated man” by judges during a previous hearing, has already spent almost 300 days in jail. That time will count against the sentence he has been given, Judge Wraight said, meaning he has almost served the full 10 months already.
Australian man who recorded and mocked dying police officers handed a 10-month prison sentence Brandon Sapienza
An Australian judge has sentenced 42-year-old Richard Pusey to 10 months in jail after he drove dangerously and then recorded and taunted the responding officers who were hit by a truck on the side of a freeway.
In the sentencing, which took place in Victoria County Court on Wednesday, Judge Wraight said that Pusey’s actions were “heartless, cruel, and disgraceful,” according to CNN.
Last April, Pusey was speeding on a freeway near Melbourne in his Porsche 911 while under the influence of marijuana and MDMA. According to court records, police officers Lynette Taylor and Glen Humphris pulled him over along with officers Kevin King and Josh Prestney who arrived a few minutes later.
Man who filmed and taunted dying police officers jailed for 10 months
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(CNN) An Australian court has jailed a man for 10 months after he drove dangerously and then filmed and mocked dying police officers at the scene of a deadly crash.
Richard Pusey was charged with reckless driving, possession of drugs and outraging public decency through his subsequent actions, which the sentencing judge in Victoria’s county court described Wednesday as “heartless, cruel and disgraceful.”
There was no trial after Pusey pleaded guilty last month to all three charges. He attended Wednesday’s sentencing via video link from prison.
Adam Cooper and Simone Fox Koob11:09, Apr 29 2021
The husband of one of four Australian police officers killed in last year’s horror crash on a Melbourne freeway has criticised Porsche driver Richard Pusey’s 10-month sentence over filming his wife as she lay dying as inappropriate and inadequate. Pusey needs to serve only a handful more days in prison after a judge ruled his 10 months in custody already fulfilled the length of his sentence. County Court judge Trevor Wraight sentenced Pusey on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to the rare charge of outraging public decency for filming the aftermath of the crash on April 22 last year, plus other charges, after the four officers were hit and killed by a truck in Kew.