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The number of Indigenous people to die in custody across Australia since the start of March has risen to seven, following another two confirmed deaths in NSW and Victoria.
On Tuesday, Corrections Victoria revealed an Aboriginal man had died at Port Phillip Prison on Monday evening.
The death, believed to related to a medical episode, has been reported to the coroner. The family of the man has been notified, as has the Aboriginal Justice Caucus, and a smoking ceremony is being arranged, a spokesperson said on Tuesday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Corrective Services NSW has separately confirmed a 37-year-old Indigenous man was found dead at Cessnock Correctional Centre on Tuesday morning.
Police familiesâ fury over âinappropriateâ Pusey sentence The husband of a police officer killed in the Eastern Freeway tragedy has slammed Richard Puseyâs 10-month sentence, revealing his âalmost unbearableâ pain.
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Subscriber only Grieving families of the officers killed in the Eastern Freeway tragedy have blasted the punishment handed down to speeding Porsche driver Richard Pusey. Pusey has been jailed for just 10 months after filming dying and dead police officers in the aftermath of the truck crash, while remarking that s justice . The sentence could mean Richard Pusey, 42, will walk free, having already spent 296 days behind bars on remand. He has another six days to serve under the sentence.
Richard Pusey pleaded guilty to series of charges over crash that killed for cops
He was pulled over for allegedly driving at 149km/h with drugs in his system
Four officers were hit by a truck while on the roadside with the mortgage broker
Pusey was hit with with unprecedented charge of outraging public decency
Pusey was sentenced in Melbourne on Wednesday in the County Court
Family of the victims packed into the courtroom to watch Pusey sentenced
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Porsche driver Richard Pusey only needs to serve a handful of days more in prison for filming four police officers as they lay dying following last yearâs horror Eastern Freeway crash, after a judge ruled his 10 months in custody fulfilled the length of his sentence.
, after the officers were hit and killed by a truck in Kew.
Richard Pusey appeared via videolink in the County Court for his sentencing on Wednesday.
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With 296 days already served, his sentence will be complete over coming days, possibly within a week. However, he could remain in prison on remand for other unrelated charges.