“All I wanted to do was go Home and have some Sushi …” – on the Criminality of Anti-Social Behaviour

In April 2020, Richard Pusey shocked the public when he taunted four dying police officers at the site of a significant crash in Melbourne and recorded the dying Leading Senior Constable Lynette Taylor, pinned to the back of Pusey’s car and begging for help. He responded by filming her and exclaiming: ‘There you go, amazing, absolutely amazing. All I wanted to do was go home and have some sushi and now you fucked my fucking car….’ Subsequently, Pusey was charged and convicted of the – arguably archaic-  common law offence of committing an act that outrages public decency. This article examines the capricious, evil and anti-social individuals that have been recognised as acting contrary to our societal standards; exemplified where a dying police officer in her last few moments on Earth is begging for help but  is met with Richard Pusey’s odious retort of a hedonistic desire to eat sushi. The devil drives a hard bargain; to convict someone of their antisocial behaviour presents a moral dilemma of convicting antisocial people to stamp out their behaviour to ensure our comfort in society.

See link to full article here: R v Pusey