Indian-origin driver slapped with more charges over crash

Melbourne, August 19

A 47-year-old Indian-origin truck driver, who was allegedly involved in a crash that killed four police officers in Australia, has been charged with 33 additional offences including drug trafficking.

Mohinder Singh has been accused of killing four police officers — Lynette Taylor, Kevin King, Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney — on a Melbourne highway on April 22 this year. He was earlier charged with four counts of culpable driving causing death.

The four officers were standing in the emergency lane of the Eastern Freeway at Kew suburb while they were impounding a Porsche which was being driven by a Melbourne’s Mortgage broker Richard Pusey. He was allegedly driving at 149 km per hour. — PTI