Australian who filmed, mocked four dying officers sentenced to 10 months in jail
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MELBOURNE, Australia (NBC News) - An Australian man who recorded and taunted four dead and dying police officers was sentenced to 10 months in prison Wednesday.
Police officers and relatives are outraged at the sentence.
Forty-two-year-old Richard Pusey had been pulled over for speeding when a truck slammed into the officers.
Pusey began recording the scene describing it as beautiful, justice, and amazing.
When a bystander asked him to help, he refused and continued to record.
His lawyer said he suffered from a personality disorder.
He left the accident scene and officers discovered the video when he was arrested the next day.
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The brother of a slain policeman has choked back tears while slamming Richard Pusey - the Porsche driver who filmed four officers as they lay dying after a horrific crash.
Pusey had been pulled over for speeding at 149km/h in his Porsche on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne when a truck driver crashed into the emergency lane on April 22 last year.
Leading Senior Constable Lynette Taylor, Senior Constable Kevin King, and Constables Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney died in the crash.
Instead of helping, Pusey retrieved his phone and slowly walked around and filmed the scene, zooming in on the dead and dying officers and their injuries.
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA A speeding driver in Australia was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Wednesday for offences including what a judge described as the heartless, cruel and disgraceful filming of four dead and dying police officers who had just been hit by a truck on a freeway. Richard Pusey, a 42-year-old mortgage broker, had earlier pleaded guilty in the Victoria state County Court to a rarely-prosecuted charge of outraging public decency over his commentary in crash scene videos shot with his phone. It was the first time the charge had been prosecuted in the state since 1963. The most serious charge he admitted was reckless conduct endangering persons, which carries a potential maximum of five years in prison.