The truck driver who killed four police officers in a road crash on Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway has had his jail term cut by 3½ years because he will give evidence against his former boss at trial.
The truck driver who killed four police officers in a road crash on Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway had his jail term cut by 3½ years after agreeing to give evidence against his former boss at trial.
A law change inspired by the Porsche driver who filming dying Victorian police officers after a crash will give a five-year maximum jail sentence to offenders who do similar grossly offensive deeds
Prosecutors say they will not appeal Porsche driver Richard Pusey s 10-month jail sentence for outraging public decency over a fatal crash in Melbourne.
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
A trucking supervisor was warned hours before one of his drivers fatally ploughed into four police officers that the driver was not fit to drive, a court has heard.
Simiona Tuteru, 49, of the Lyndhurst-based Connect Logistics is facing a committal hearing for the police officers’ manslaughter.
Connect employee Stephen Harrison allegedly texted Mr Tuteru about 1.40pm on 22 April 2020 with concerns over the driver Mohinder Bajwa Singh’s “mental state”, according to phone records tendered to Melbourne Magistrates’ Court.
“He told me he was not in a good spot.
“He was putting trucks on wrong docks and had a sleep on the way back from Thomastown and slept in.