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 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. — AP
CANBERRA, Australia: A speeding driver in Australia was sentenced to 10 months in prison on April 28 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 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 shot with his phone. It was the first time the charge had been prosecuted in the state since 1963.
