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The case made headlines in Australia.
Now a court has ruled: A 42-year-old is sentenced to ten months in prison for driving too fast, possessing drugs and violating public decency.
It is the third offense on this list that makes this case so special.
It goes back to April 2020 when two police officers stopped a Porsche driver on a Melbourne motorway for driving too fast.
He was also under the influence of drugs.
A little later, two more police officers joined them.
During the inspection on the hard shoulder, there was a tragic accident when a truck driver could no longer brake and crashed into the Porsche.
The three policemen and one policewoman were fatally injured.
The Porsche driver, however, was uninjured.
After the collision, the judge said, according to CNN, the man photographed and filmed the scene with his mobile phone.
In the film footage that the court confiscated, the man mocks the dead and dying.
At the same time, other people can be heard who want to help the victims and ask the man to stop filming.
At least the policewoman was still alive at the time, according to the British BBC.
However, she later succumbed to her serious injuries.
Police union finds hard words
The man later left the scene of the accident and is said to have shown and sent the recordings.
Commenting on the verdict, Judge Trevor Wraight stated that the man was not responsible for the deaths of the officers and the policewoman.
His later behavior was "extremely callous and heartless".
The man had admitted his actions and apologized.
Still, he had to put up with harsh words from the Victoria State Police Union.
Her spokesman, Wayne Gatt, said after the verdict, “Each of us has to face our mortality at some point.
When the time comes with him, I hope he will experience the same coldness and cowardice that he showed towards our people. "
The truck driver was also convicted that month.
He was under the influence of drugs during the accident.
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