Porsche driver Richard Pusey’s bizarre Kylie Moore-Gilbert claim
Notorious Porsche driver Richard Pusey has compared his situation to an Australian academic jailed for more than two years in Iran.
Notorious Porsche driver Richard Pusey has made another chaotic court appearance, which included holding up a handwritten sign, while flagging plans to fight several charges.
Dressed in prison greens with their hair in pigtails Pusey appeared via video link in the Sunshine Magistrates Court on Tuesday to contest four charges including two counts of using a telecommunications device to cause offence and two counts of committing an indictable offence on bail.
The 44-year-old is facing allegations they posted a Google review to a Porsche dealership’s website that included an image of an officer killed in the horrific Eastern Freeway crash in 2020.
An unrepresented Pusey told the court Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert would “find it difficult to distinguish the difference between the Australian and Iranian justice systems”.
Pusey also held up a sign which said “me no hear” you and vanished from the screen only to return brandishing peace signs with their fingers.
Prosecutor Bianco Moleta told the court they would amend two of the charges from menacing to causing offence.
Though Pusey continued to interrupt proceedings claiming the matter could not proceed today because they needed to speak with legal aid after the charges were amended.
“There’s no library for justice in this system you’ve put me in,” they told the court.
Magistrate Capell then dismissed Pusey’s request to rely on CCTV from a hotel in Melbourne and also from the Eastern Freeway crash.
“I see absolutely no relevance to this matter,” he said.
The matter will return to court for a two-day contest hearing in August.
Pusey also appeared in court on Tuesday for a bail hearing that was over before it began after they claimed they hadn’t received key documents relied upon for the bail application.
Pusey claimed they were “not armed the same” as the prosecution and it would be unfair to hear their case.
They also went on to misquote Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Freedom must be armed no worse than tyranny,” Pusey told the court, though Mr Zelensky’s words were actually, “freedom must be armed better than tyranny”.
Pusey is facing allegations they posted an image of a dead police officer to the website of a Melbourne Porsche dealership.
Pusey, who claims to be inquiring about gender reassignment surgery and now goes by the pronouns they/them, had a number of charges dropped in the Melbourne Magistrates Court last week.
They included two counts of stalking and four of assaulting an emergency worker, and committing an offence while on bail.
Police had previously alleged Pusey threw canisters of nitrous oxide at officers and left cat litter and faeces around a person’s home.
Pusey was previously sentenced to 10 months jail after pleading guilty to the rare charge of outraging public decency for filming the aftermath of the crash that killed four police officers.