Australian who filmed 4 dead and dying police sent to prison
Rod Mcguirk
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Richard Pusey, right, is taken away from his home property by police in Melbourne, Australia on April 23, 2020. Pusey was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, for offenses 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 an Australian freeway. (Michael Dodge/AAP Image via AP)
CANBERRA – A speeding driver in Australia was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Wednesday for offenses 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.
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Australian Who Filmed 4 Dead and Dying Officers Gets Prison Sentence
The judge described the filming of police officers who had been hit by a truck on a freeway as “heartless, cruel and disgraceful.”
Richard Pusey, who filmed the scene of a truck crash involving four police officers, in Melbourne, Australia, last year.Credit.Michael Dodge/EPA, via Shutterstock
By The Associated Press
April 28, 2021, 1:50 a.m. ET
CANBERRA, Australia An Australian driver who filmed four dead and dying police officers who had been hit by a truck on a freeway was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 months in prison for what a judge described as a “heartless, cruel and disgraceful” act.
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Richard Pusey has been jailed for 10 months for his heartless, cruel and disgraceful actions in filming dead and dying police officers after a Melbourne crash.
The 42-year-old had been pulled over for driving his Porsche at 149km/h along the Eastern Freeway when a truck crashed into the emergency lane on 22 April last year.
Senior Constables Lynette Taylor and Kevin King, and Constables Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney, died.
(L-R) Constable Glen Humphris, Senior Constable Kevin King, Leading Senior Constable Lynette Taylor and Constable Joshua Prestney.
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Pusey, who avoided injury because he d been urinating off the side of the freeway, did not help but instead filmed the scene.