New charges for Porsche driver accused of filming, fleeing horror Eastern Freeway crash
As Lynette Taylor gasped and pleaded for help after being crushed in a horror crash on the Eastern Freeway, Richard Pusey allegedly filmed and taunted the dying police officer. Now, he has been hit with another charge over the incident.
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The Porsche driver accused of filming a dying officer then fleeing the scene of the horror Eastern Freeway crash that killed four police has been charged with public indecency offences.
Richard Pusey has been today been charged with committing an act outraging public decency and behaving in an indecent or offensive manner.
Mr Pusey, 41, of Fitzroy, is currently in custody after being refused bail on charges of speeding, reckless conduct endangering life, failing to render assistance, destruction of evidence and other offences.
He is accused of taunting Leading Senior Constable Lynette Taylor on camera as she gasped for help after she and Senior Constable Kevin King, Constable Glen Humphris and Constable Josh Prestney were hit by a truck on the freeway on April 22. All four officers died.
He had been pulled over for allegedly doing 149 kmh in his Porsche 911 while high on ice and cannabis.
The video allegedly taken by Mr Pusey was shared on social media.
Mr Pusey is at Melbourne Assessment Prison, where sources have told the Herald Sun he has become a meek “cell-dweller” since being refused bail last month.
Earlier this month, the Herald Sun revealed Mr Pusey terrorised a federal politician and neighbours in a campaign of vengeance that saw him banned from two local councils.
Both Frankston and Whitehorse councils banned him from entering council buildings, claiming he was a danger to staff.
In a series of breaches, Pusey covered his face with a mask and confronted the cashier’s desk at Whitehorse Civic Centre on two occasions and joked about “wearing my burka again” when threatened with jail time if he breached Frankston Council’s prohibition order
The mortgage broker also allegedly repeatedly harassed Federal MP Michael Sukkar when his office refused to intervene in Pusey’s longstanding dispute with Whitehorse City Council over the height of the fence at his former Mitcham home.
He is due to appear in court on June 25.
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