Richard Pusey, Eastern Fwy Porsche driver, in hospital before fresh bid for freedom

Richard Pusey, who filmed four dying police officers after a horrific crash in Melbourne in 2020, has told a court they spent Thursday morning in hospital.

Richard Pusey, who filmed four Victorian police officers involved in a horrific collision on Melbourne’s Eastern Fwy two years ago, has made a fresh bid for freedom as they fight more charges.

The former mortgage broker, 44, applied for bail in the Victorian Supreme Court on Thursday, but the hearing was adjourned by Justice Lesley Taylor after Pusey told the court they did not have access to the notes of their planned submission.

Pusey, who is self represented and uses they/them pronouns, told the court they were taken to St Vincent’s Hospital before the bail hearing and then returned to a separate unit where they were “stripped of everything”.

This included their notes, they told the court, adding there was some “fantastic stuff” in the documents that they didn’t have access to.

Pusey, who was previously jailed for 10 months when they were found guilty of outraging public decency for filming the police officers death, has pleaded not guilty to the more recent charges of using a carriage service to cause offence and committing an indictable offence on bail.

Richard Pusey, 44, told the Victorian Supreme Court they had been in hospital before their bail hearing on Thursday.

On April 22, 2020, Pusey had been pulled over for speeding in their Porsche by police, when a truck driven by Mohinder Singh veered into the emergency lane.

Leading Senior Constable Lynette Taylor, Senior Constable Kevin King and Constables Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney, died as a result of their injuries.

Singh was sentenced to 22 years prison, which was recently reduced by three-and-a-half years.

Pusey is contesting two counts of using a carriage service to cause offence and committing an indictable offence on bail, which stem from them allegedly attaching photos of the crash in a Google review of a Porsche dealership and in a complaint to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority.

In August, the Sunshine Magistrates’ Court – where the contested mention took place – heard Pusey had sought $2.2 million from insurers over their Porsche.

The claim was rejected in March last year, and police allege Pusey sent four graphic photos AFCA in November 2021, and used offensive photos again the Google review in February.

Pusey has pleaded not guilty to two counts of using a carriage service to cause offence and committing an indictable offence while on bail. Picture: Jason Edwards

A decision on those charges is expected to be handed down in the Sunshine Magistrates Court in December.

Pusey, who the court heard has been in custody for 268 days, represented theirself in Thursday’s bail application.

Pusey asked Justice Taylor if Corrections Victoria were “colluding” with an unspecified party, and later said that lives were being “damaged by this justice system.”

The matter was adjourned part heard, and no return date was set.

Originally published as Richard Pusey, Eastern Fwy Porsche driver, in hospital before fresh bid for freedom