A driver has been jailed after filming four police officers dying in the road, calling it ‘f*****g justice’ after they pulled him over.
Richard Pusey, 42, was driving at 93mph on a motorway in Melbourne, Australia, before being stopped by police on April 22 last year. Roadside tests showed he had ecstasy and cannabis in his system.
As police were discussing whether to seize Pusey’s Porsche, a lorry crashed into them in the emergency stopping lane.
Pusey was urinating on the side of the road when the crash happened, and was not hurt – but the four officers were killed.
Instead of helping the cops, the millionaire property developer began filming the horrific scene.
Senior constable Kevin King, 50, had already died along with constables Glen Humphris, 32, and Joshua Prestney, 26. But leading senior constable Lynette Taylor, 60, was still dying in front Pusey when he started filming.
In the video, Pusey can be heard making ‘heartless’ comments while surveying the crash such as: ‘This is f*****g justice’, ‘absolutely amazing’ and ‘beautiful’.
A court heard Pusey collected his two mobile phones from his car, along with a lunch bag of drugs.
He then zoomed in on Taylor, who was lying on top of the Porsche with her legs crushed under the lorry, and said: ‘There you go.’
He continued filming the dead officers and showed a close-up of one cop, saying: ‘Oh he’s smashed, look at that. Lucky I went and had a piss.’
Other drivers pulled over to help the officers in the wreck but Pusey told them ‘they’re dead’.
Pusey was urged to stop filming but he continued.
At one point, the millionaire complained about his car being destroyed by the lorry, saying: ‘Look at that, man, you f*****g c***s, guess I’ll be getting an Uber home.’
The next day Pusey went to his GP where he showed his videos to staff at the pharmacy next door, and then sent the footage to three friends. He was arrested that day.
Pusey and his lawyer have since argued that his shocking response to the crash was because he has borderline personality disorder, anti-social personality disorder and an anti-authority complex.
Pusey told police: ‘That’s just how s**t comes out of my head, I’m highly offensive, I struggle every day to keep my mouth shut.’
Judge Trevor Wraight called Pusey’s actions ‘callous, reprehensible, heartless, cruel and disgraceful’.
Pusey’s lawyer, Dermot Dann QC, argued his client’s behaviour was because of his ‘severe personality disorders’ which had derailed much of his life until he found a successful career as a mortgage broker.
This was also wrecked when Pusey was arrested in 2018, but he was able to keep making millions in property development.
Judge Wraight agreed the defendant had lost many of his jobs because of behaviour linked to his personality disorders.
The judge also conceded that Pusey had been put through ‘extra-curial’ punishment with the public ‘demonising’ him as ‘the most hated man in Australia’.
The court accepted Pusey was not ‘taunting police’ but ‘making commentary for the video’, which Mr Dann argued was part of his client’s ‘disordered self-absorbed world’.
Speaking directly to Pusey, Judge Wraight said: ‘In my view, your conduct in recording the police officers in their dying moments together with the words you used as you were recording, was not only “derogatory and horrible” as you describe in your record of interview, but it was also callous and reprehensible conduct.
‘While your complex personality disorder may go some way in explaining your behavior, it is nonetheless behavior correctly identified as conduct that outrages public decency, and in my view, represents a serious example.’
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Pusey pleaded guilty to ‘outraging public decency’ and several other serious charges.
He was jailed for 10 months on Wednesday, but the sentence was backdated to include the nine months he already spent in custody.
He was also fined 1,000 Australian dollars (£558) and banned from driving for two years.
Although his sentence will end soon, the serial offender will likely remain behind bars for unrelated crimes.
The lorry driver who crashed into the officers, Mohinder Singh, was jailed for 22 years two weeks ago.
He was sleep-deprived and on drugs when the accident happened, and pleaded guilty to four counts of culpable driving causing death, three charges of drug trafficking and one of possessing illicit drugs.
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