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Melbourne freeway tragedy: Truckie actively psychotic before crash that killed four police officers
12 Mar, 2021 02:35 AM
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Mohinder Singh. Photo / David Crosling, NCA NewsWire
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By: Caroline Schelle
An Australian truckie who was high on ice and actively psychotic when he ploughed into four officers on a Melbourne freeway has apologised.
Mohinder Singh faced the second day of his pre-sentence hearing in the Supreme Court of Victoria on Friday.
The 48-year-old pleaded guilty to four counts of culpable driving causing the deaths of Leading Senior Constable Lynette Taylor, Senior Constable Kevin King, Constable Glen Humphris and Constable Josh Prestney.
Families speak of crushing pain of losing police officers in Eastern Freeway crash
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Sharron MacKenzie sobbed in court as she described her life with husband Kevin King.
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The grieving widow of a police officer who was killed on Melbourne s Eastern Freeway has come face-to-face with his killer for the first time, telling a court about the anguish of breaking the news to their three children.
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Sharron MacKenzie described the anguish of telling her three children their father was dead
Kevin King was one of four officers killed by a truck in the Eastern Freeway crash last year
Relatives of four Victoria police officers describe ‘deep and utter despair’ during Mohinder Singh’s pre-sentence hearing
Mohinder Singh arrives at the supreme court in Melbourne for a pre-sentence hearing after pleading guilty to culpable driving over a crash that killed four police officers. Photograph: Luis Ascui/AAP
Mohinder Singh arrives at the supreme court in Melbourne for a pre-sentence hearing after pleading guilty to culpable driving over a crash that killed four police officers. Photograph: Luis Ascui/AAP
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Thu 11 Mar 2021 02.29 EST
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Sharron MacKenzie’s life was reduced to an “ocean of tears and sleepless nights” after her husband was one of four Victoria police officers killed by a drugged and delusional truck driver.