Richard Pusey could be released from prison in coming days despite admitting more crimes
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Richard Pusey could be released from prison in coming days despite admitting more crimes

Richard Pusey,the man jailed for filming four dying police officers after a crash on Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway,could be a free man as early as this week despite pleading guilty to a series of other offences including assaulting a woman.

  • byAdam Cooper

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Pusey damages camera during dramatic outburst in court hearing
Courts

Pusey damages camera during dramatic outburst in court hearing

The Porsche driver who filmed dying police officers on the Eastern Freeway has demanded that his bail application on other matters be withdrawn,telling a court he would “get better justice in Belarus”.

  • bySimone Fox Koob
Pusey to apply for bail,facing charge he assaulted wife
Courts

Pusey to apply for bail,facing charge he assaulted wife

Porsche driver Richard Pusey’s new lawyer told the court on Tuesday he was preparing a bail application to be heard on August 23,which he expected to be a lengthy hearing.

  • bySimone Fox Koob
Should we revive an archaic law after the Eastern Freeway incident?
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Justice

Should we revive an archaic law after the Eastern Freeway incident?

While Richard Pusey’s conduct shocked Victoria,introducing a new offence of “outraging public decency” may criminalise conduct in a way that infringes civil liberties and human rights.

  • byStephen Gray
Progress in bid for law to punish ‘diabolical acts’ like Richard Pusey’s,but lawyers urge caution
Victoria

Progress in bid for law to punish ‘diabolical acts’ like Richard Pusey’s,but lawyers urge caution

Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes met the widower of one of the four police officers killed in the Eastern Freeway crash to discuss a proposal for a new law.

  • byTammy Mills
Eastern Freeway truck driver said he had to make one more trip before crash,court told
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Eastern Freeway truck driver said he had to make one more trip before crash,court told

Mohinder Singh,who killed four police officers on the Eastern Freeway,“didn’t seem right to be operating anything,let alone a truck” in the lead-up to the tragedy,Melbourne Magistrates Court heard.

  • byTammy Mills
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‘I don’t think he should be driving’:Truck boss warned before crash
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‘I don’t think he should be driving’:Truck boss warned before crash

A colleague of Mohinder Singh,the truck driver who killed four police officers on the Eastern Freeway last year,says he told their supervisor that Singh should not be driving.

  • byTammy Mills
‘Something was wrong’ on day of crash,truck driver’s daughter tells court
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‘Something was wrong’ on day of crash,truck driver’s daughter tells court

The daughter of the truck driver who took the lives of four police officers believed her father was going to kill someone if he drove,but he went to work on the day of the crash because he thought he was going to get fired,a court has heard.

  • byTammy Mills
‘Totally inappropriate’:Grieving husband slams Pusey’s 10-month sentence for filming police killed in crash
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‘Totally inappropriate’:Grieving husband slams Pusey’s 10-month sentence for filming police killed in crash

Porsche driver Richard Pusey needs to serve only a handful more days in prison after a judge ruled his 10 months already in custody fulfilled the length of his sentence.

  • byAdam Cooper andSimone Fox Koob
Judge slams Corrections amid calls for Richard Pusey to serve no more time in jail
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Judge slams Corrections amid calls for Richard Pusey to serve no more time in jail

Judge criticises authorities’ handling of Porsche driver Richard Pusey’s case amid calls for him to serve no further jail time for filming four dying police officers after horror Eastern Freeway crash.

  • byAdam Cooper
‘Always with me’:Families of four officers mark anniversary of Eastern Freeway tragedy
Victoria Police

‘Always with me’:Families of four officers mark anniversary of Eastern Freeway tragedy

Dozens of Melbourne buildings across the city,including Flinders Street Station and the MCG,were illuminated in blue light on Thursday in honour of the four police officers killed in the Eastern Freeway tragedy a year ago.

  • byErin Pearson andSimone Fox Koob