A Porsche driver who became known as Australia s most hated man for filming and taunting four police officers as they lay dying after they were hit by a truck has today been jailed for ten months for outraging public decency.
Richard Pusey, a 42-year-old mortgage broker, was speeding at 93mph in April last year when he was pulled over by Melbourne police on the city s eastern Freeway.
Minutes later, Pusey s parked Porsche and the four police officers - Leading Senior Constable Lynnette Taylor, Senior Constable Kevin King and constables Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney - were struck by a truck driven by father-of-two Mohinder Singh, 48.
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Separately, NSW authorities confirmed a 37-year-old man was found dead in his cell at Cessnock Correctional Centre on Tuesday morning.
âAnother two people dead. More suffering and more pain,â Thorpe, a Gunnai Gunditjmara DjabWurrung woman, said.
âWhat kind of country asks that its First Peoples bear this kind of pain and trauma? What kind of government refuses to act in the face of this kind of crisis? Our grief is constant. It is never-ending.
Thorpe said Indigenous Australians were âheartbrokenâ.
âOur thoughts are with these families today that are suffering in a way that no one should ever have to experience,â she said.
Judge slams Corrections amid calls for Richard Pusey to serve no more time in jail
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Porsche driver Richard Pusey has been deemed unsuitable for a community correction order because of his notoriety, prompting calls for him to serve no more time in jail for filming four dying police officers after a horror road crash on the Eastern Freeway.
Pusey is to be sentenced on Wednesday on the rare charge of outraging public decency after he filmed the aftermath of the Kew crash on April 22 last year, when the officers were hit and killed by a truck. Puseyâs crude commentary is heard on the three minutes and eight seconds of footage he recorded on his mobile phone.
âItâs really an attitude that because of the media attention that heâs received that somehow heâs going to be a problem for them,â the judge said.
He added the report seemed to be âmotivated by not wanting to deal with this man because heâs unpopularâ.
âThe attitude of corrections is [heâs] beyond rehabilitation,â judge Wraight said, noting it was still within his power to place Pusey on such an order regardless.
âYou would hope that they are not treating him any differently to any other offender, but it seems they are.â
Corrections Victoriaâs Jennifer Grass confirmed to the court Pusey was considered unsuitable for a community order âfor a number of reasonsâ.