Porsche driver Richard Pusey has interrupted a court hearing, saying he was concerned about "re-traumatising" the grieving relatives of the police officers he filmed at a Melbourne crash.
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Pusey faced Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday and pleaded guilty through his lawyer to one count of criminal damage and four counts of using a carriage service to menace over two separate incidents.
As magistrate Simon Zebrowski considered granting media access to certain footage and documents relating to these charges, Pusey, who was jailed last month for his "heartless, cruel and disgraceful" filming of the dead and dying officers, interjected.
"It's traumatic," Pusey told the court.
"It's re-traumatising the truck victims' families constantly."
Mr Zebrowski told the 42-year-old to worry about his own situation and not speak for any complainants.
Prosecutor Meagan McDonnell then said Pusey had been charged with criminal damage after using a key to scratch a man's motorbike in Richmond in March 2019.
The court heard Pusey had been driving "erratically" and scratched the $3400 motorbike after the other man confronted him, causing "significant" damage.
Pusey then interrupted proceedings again, ignoring Mr Peters' advice to be quiet, claiming he had not been able to read this summary of facts.
"Adjourn it, please," Pusey repeated three times as Mr Zebrowski sought to maintain order in the hearing.
"I haven't seen anything."
Mr Zebrowski stood the matter down.
Court documents show Pusey was also charged with four counts of using a carriage service to menace a Westpac Bank employee during a series of messages in August 2019 that followed a credit card dispute.
In the late night messages Pusey allegedly called the bank worker a "f***wit c***" before making sexual comments about their wife and a reference to their daughter's second birthday.
"She's going to save the world because she can use an iPad," Pusey wrote.
It remains unclear how the 42-year-old obtained information about the bank employee's child, police said.
Pusey was previously jailed in Victoria's County Court for 10 months after pleading guilty to offences including outraging public decency.
He had been pulled over for speeding at 149km/h in his Porsche on the Eastern Freeway, when a truck driver crashed into the emergency lane on April 22 last year.
Leading Senior Constable Lynette Taylor, Senior Constable Kevin King, and Constables Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney, died in the crash. Pusey avoided injury because he was urinating off the side of the freeway.
Instead of helping, he retrieved his phones and slowly walked around and filmed the scene, zooming in on the dead and dying officers and their injuries.
"That is f***ing justice, absolutely amazing," Pusey said, focusing on a damaged unmarked police car.
He walked towards the truck, driven by a sleep-deprived and drug-addled Mohinder Singh, and said: "You c***s, I guess I'll be getting a f***ing Uber home, huh".
Singh has been jailed for a maximum of 22 years for causing the deaths of the four officers.
Pusey will next face court for a mention on August 23.
He remains in custody after making no application for bail.
Australian Associated Press