Porsche driver Richard Pusey’s boast: ‘I hit 300km/h’

Richard Pusey’s past offending has been revealed in a court, the Porsche driver previously bragging his car could hit 350km/h.

The man accused of taunting a dying police officer on the Eastern Freeway bragged his Porsche could hit 350km/h in texts to friends, a court heard.

Richard Pusey’s criminal history was laid bare during a bail application at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday after the unlicensed mortgage broker was slapped with three additional charges, including two of perverting the course of justice.

Senior Leading Constable Aaron Price, for Victoria Police, said analysis of Mr Pusey’s phone had uncovered texts in which he boasted about scaring a passenger by hitting 300km/h in his Turbo-S Porsche.

“I did 275 (km/h) first, then returned (and) took us to 300,” he said. “It will do 350 and it’s coming.”

In response his friend suggested Mr Pusey install “blinders”, devices that help drivers avoid speed camera detection.

The court heard Mr Pusey had received 13 penalties for driving offences with 10 relating to speeding and the month before the horror collision was filmed allegedly doing 247km/h on the Monash Freeway.

He faces 12 charges including failing to render assistance, reckless conduct endangering serious injury and three counts of committing an indictable offence while on bail.

It is alleged Mr Pusey was driving his $150,000 Porsche coupe on Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway at 149km/h on April 22, with ecstasy and cannabis in his system. He had stopped and was urinating on the side of the Eastern Freeway near Kew when a Volvo prime mover veered into a police road stop, killing police officers Joshua Prestney, Glen Humphris, Kevin King and Lynette Taylor.

Constable Price said when Mr Pusey saw the carnage, he went to his damaged black Porsche and removed two iPhones as well as a satchel bag, which held ziplock bags containing a substance that has yet to be analysed.

The court heard Mr Pusey then filmed the accident scene on his iPhone for just over three minutes, using the zoom function as well as making “derogatory comments” about what he saw.

“He’s going around filming these officers in detail (and) making detailed commentary derogatory about them,” Constable Price said.

Mr Pusey then allegedly sent the images to his wife and a female ABF officer with a “blithe one-liner” about getting off a fine, Constable Price said.

Richard Pusey's lawyer Vincent Peters. Picture: AAP

He said Victoria Police was opposing bail on the grounds Mr Pusey was likely to offend again, was a bail risk and could interfere with witnesses in the case.

“He has no regard for the welfare of others or orders of the courts,” he said.

The court heard Mr Pusey was once removed by Victoria Police from a Tigerair flight from Melbourne to the Gold Coast after calling an attendant a “fat cow”.

Constable Price said Mr Pusey lashed out at people who held him to account for his behaviour. “The accused seems to take a disturbing pleasure causing other people fear and discomfort,” he said.

According to a psychologist’s report submitted by Mr Pusey’s lawyer, the unlicensed mortgage broker feared being arrested, believed police were watching him and fantasised about killing people. The lawyer, Vincent Peters, said his client had been left traumatised by the Eastern Freeway crash, suggesting it was why he fled the scene.

Magistrate Jo Metcalf adjourned the bail application until May 14.