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A man has been jailed for 10 months for offences including the “heartless, cruel and disgraceful” filming of four dead and dying police officers who had just been hit by a truck on a major Australian road.
Richard Pusey, a 42-year-old mortgage broker, had earlier pleaded guilty in the Victoria state county court to a charge of outraging public decency over his commentary in crash scene videos he shot with his phone.
It is the first time the charge had been prosecuted in the state since 1963.
Adam Cooper and Simone Fox Koob11:09, Apr 29 2021
The husband of one of four Australian police officers killed in last year’s horror crash on a Melbourne freeway has criticised Porsche driver Richard Pusey’s 10-month sentence over filming his wife as she lay dying as inappropriate and inadequate. Pusey needs to serve only a handful more days in prison after a judge ruled his 10 months in custody already fulfilled the length of his sentence. County Court judge Trevor Wraight sentenced Pusey on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to the rare charge of outraging public decency for filming the aftermath of the crash on April 22 last year, plus other charges, after the four officers were hit and killed by a truck in Kew.
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A speeding driver in Australia was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Wednesday for offences including what a judge described as the âheartless, cruel and disgracefulâ filming of four dead and dying police officers who had just been hit by a truck on a motorway.
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.
Richard Pusey appeared via video link on Wednesday.Â
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