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.
Australian who filmed four dead and dying cop sent to prison
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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.
Published Apr 29, 2021 Updated Apr 29, 2021, 12:34 pm CDT
Australian man Richard Pusey was sentenced to 10 months in jail after being convicted of “outraging public decency” when he filmed four dying officers following a crash last year. Featured Video Hide
The sentence sparked immediate public outrage among people who considered it too lenient, Australia’s Nine News reports. Advertisement Hide
The 42-year-old Pusey was pulled over last year for speeding down a highway in his Porsche. As four Victoria police officers prepared his arrest, the driver of a semi-trailer swerved out of its lane and struck all four of them.
Pusey, who was several feet away from the others, was not struck. He did remain on the scene of the accident for several minutes, however, filming one of the officers in her final moments.
Sky News host Alan Jones says Australia’s justice system delivers “decisions, but not always justice” after Richard Pusey was sentenced to 10 months in jail.
Mr Pusey, the Porsche driver at the centre of the eastern freeway crash in Melbourne last year, was sentenced on Wednesday.
The crash killed four police officers.
“He filmed a minute-long video of the dying police officers,” Mr Jones said.
“He was sentenced to 10 months in jail, and because he has been there already 296 days, he technically could walk free, except other criminal charges are pending.
“What does it say about the justice system yet again in this country – you often get decisions, but not always justice.”
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