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10:45 EDT, 19 May 2021 A truck driver who hit and killed four Melbourne police officers while high on drugs told a colleague his boss had 'cleaned his spirit' and rid him of a curse before the crash. That boss, Connect Logistics manager Simiona Tuteru, faces 82 charges including manslaughter after allegedly directing or requiring Mohinder Singh to work while fatigued. Singh insisted on delivering by 'this one load' that fatal afternoon in April 2020, fellow truck driver Michael Horrocks told Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday. Mohinder Singh (pictured) crashed a 19-tonne delivery truc...

A truckie who killed police officers in a horror Melbourne crash sent a text in the days before to a person who said he was ‘pretty cooked’, a court heard.

News by Caroline Schelle 19th May 2021 5:13 AM The boss of a truckie who ploughed into four police officers in Melbourne received a text hours before the horror crash warning him "I don't think he should be driving". Explosive text messages tendered in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday showed Connect Logistics manager Simiona Tuteru was told truck driver Mohinder Singh shouldn't be on the road. Mr Tuteru is facing more than 80 charges in connection to the crash - including four counts of manslaughter - because he alleg...

A truck driver was on a cocktail of drugs and alcohol days before a fatal crash Mohinder Singh pleaded guilty to culpable driving at a Melbourne court The 48-year-old was behind the wheel when he hit and killed four police officers    The officers were struck by Singh's semi-trailer while impounding a Porsche  A court heard the driver was 'drug-f***ed' and hadn't slept for days before crash Singh was sentenced on Wednesday to 22 years in prison for the atrocity 

"His pupils were dilated, he seemed pretty terrified and he couldn't stop speaking." Ms Bajwa told the court that her father feared he was going to be fired from his trucking company job if he didn't attend a meeting with his boss Simon Tuteru. "I told him he shouldn't go to that meeting because he wasn't fit to drive and needs to see a psychiatrist," she said. Mr Tuteru, 49, who is the Victorian manager of Connect Logistics, has been charged with four counts of manslaughter over the deaths of the police officers. But he is facing 82 charges in total, with police alleging he also failed to en...