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Pusey can’t get more jail for being a scumbag The Porsche driver’s sentence will outrage many but here’s why Richard Pusey only got 10 months, writes Rebekah Cavanagh. Opinion by REBEKAH CAVANAGH Premium Content Subscriber only Lock them up and throw away the key. They are words often saved for our worst offenders. Think murderers, rapists and paedophiles. But it is a phrase that has repeatedly been thrown around about Richard Pusey. Th...

EFESydney, Australia 28 Apr 2021 Richard Pusey, the driver of a Porsche who allegedly fled the scene of a truck crash on Melbournes Eastern Freeway which killed four police officers, is taken away from his Fitzroy property by police in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 April 2020. EPA-EFE FILE/MICHAEL DODGE AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT The Flinders Street Station is lit up in blue in tribute to four police officers that died after being hit by a truck on Melbournes Eastern...

Australian who filmed 4 dead and dying police sent to prison Rod Mcguirk Updated:  Tags:  AAP IMAGE 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...

Share on Twitter 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 C...

An Australian man was sentenced to 10 months in jail for filming and mocking police officers as they lay dying in a car crash scene. 

  CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA -- A speeding driver in Australia was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Wednesday for offences 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. 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...

EFESydney, Australia 28 Apr 2021 Richard Pusey, the driver of a Porsche who allegedly fled the scene of a truck crash on Melbournes Eastern Freeway which killed four police officers, is taken away from his Fitzroy property by police in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 April 2020. EPA-EFE FILE/MICHAEL DODGE AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT The Flinders Street Station is lit up in blue in tribute to four police officers that died after being hit by a truck on Melbournes Eastern...

Porsche driver Richard Pusey only needs to serve a handful of days more in prison for filming four dying police officers, because a judge ruled his 10 months in custody fulfilled the length of his sentence.

  EXCLUSIVE: The family of a truck driver who died in a crash while high on ice has been awarded a payout of more than half a million dollars after the Workers Compensation Commission found he was acting within the course of his employment at the time. Darren Hughes, 42, had worked for up to 36 hours and had been smoking what his partner described as "little rocks … in a glass pipe" to help him stay awake, when his B-double semi-trailer veered off the road and into the bedroom of a co...

Crime by Rohan Smith   Porsche driver Richard Pusey has been sentenced to 10 months jailfor outraging public decency by filming and swearing at four dying police officers after the tragic Eastern Freeway crash a year ago. Given time served, the 42-year-old could walk free if he is granted bail on other matters. He could also be back behind the wheel in less than six months. Pusey, wearing a green prison tracksuit and a face mask, learned his fate via vide...