Picture emerges of Porsche driver who told innocent cancer sufferer ‘I hope you f..ing die’

A heartless mortgage broker is the picture emerging of the man who allegedly fled as four ­police lay dying.

Richard Pusey, the driver of a Porsche who allegedly fled the scene of a truck crash on Melbourne's Eastern Freeway which killed four police officers, is taken away from his Fitzroy property by police in Melbourne. Picture: Michael Dodge/AAP

A heartless, hot-headed mortgage broker obsessed with his Porsche is the picture emerging of the man who allegedly fled the Eastern Freeway crash site while four ­Victoria Police officers lay dead or dying around him.

Richard Pusey, 41, was on bail when he was pulled over at 5.40pm on Wednesday after he was caught speeding in his black Porsche at 140km/h and tested positive for illegal drugs.

When a refrigerated truck swerved a corner and smashed into the police officers, Mr Pusey didn’t try to help them. Instead, he took photographs of the crash scene before allegedly fleeing.

He posted the graphic images on Facebook and sent them to a few friends, before handing himself in to police just before 11am on Thursday.

Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said he was “disgusted” by the sharing of the images, and said fleeing the scene of an accident was an indictable offence.

“Today, when I’m spending time with the family members of those deceased officers, I can tell you it will absolutely disgust them,” he said. “If I wasn’t wearing the uniform of Chief Commissioner, I would give you far more colourful language.”

Victoria Police confirmed Mr Pusey was out on bail on unlawful assault and theft charges, for which he was due to face Collingwood Neighbourhood Justice Centre later this month. He was also due to face Melbourne Magistrates Court in June on a charge of criminal damage.

Dashcam videos posted to Mr Pusey’s social media show the mortgage broker driving Porsches at high speeds on racetracks.

In Tripadvisor reviews, he boasted about his high-speed ­vehicle, and in one October 2018 post about Skybuses he said: “I like to drive behind the bus in my ­Porsche because it doesn’t have wi-fi. I set the cruise control to allow me to social network and all that cool stuff that’s all the rage.

“Me and my Porsche enjoy the day out doing this activity.”

Video uploaded to Facebook about four years ago shows Mr Pusey heckling a cancer patient. In the footage, Mr Pusey acts ­aggressively towards a man next to a truck in a driveway before ­realising he is being filmed.

He approaches the woman filming him and tells her to “get some more cancer you stupid f..king shit”. The woman is recovering from a double mastectomy for breast cancer.

Mr Pusey then continues his ­tirade against the cancer survivor by saying: “I hope you f..king die, your metastasis will kick in 10 f..king years.”

Metastasis is when cancer spreads through the body from the original malignant tumour, and the incident later featured in an edition of the Nine Network’s A Current Affair.

Mr Pusey was the director of mortgage broking firm Switch Now Home Loans, which according to company records is located in the town of Gisborne in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges.

In 2016, he was ranked No 28 in the Mortgage Professional Australia Top 100 brokers.

In September 2019, Mr Pusey sold a double-storey complex building in Melbourne’s CBD for $4.4m. He purchased the building for $2.8m in 2017.

Mr Ashton said a speeding Porsche captured on video a month ago looked similar to the one driven by Mr Pusey and would form part of the police investigation.