The truck driver who killed 4 cops when he crashed a 19-tonne semi-trailer into them on Melbourne's Jap Freeway has had his jail sentence slashed on enchantment.
Mohinder Singh, 49, was sleep-deprived and excessive on medicine when he veered right into a service lane and crashed the truck into the Victoria Law enforcement officials, who had pulled over Porsche driver Richard Pusey for rushing.
The 22-year jail sentence Singh had been dealt for the crash in July 2021 was lower to 18 years and 6 months' jail earlier than Victoria's Court docket of Enchantment on Thursday morning.
He was additionally handed a brand new non-parole interval of 14 years and 6 months, down from the 18-and-a-half-year interval that was beforehand set.
Singh's barrister Peter Morrissey argued earlier than the courtroom final month that the 22-year jail sentence handed to Singh in July 2021 was "manifestly extreme".
Morrissey informed the courtroom the sentence didn't give sufficient weight to Singh's early plea of responsible, his regret and his psychological issues.
Morrissey additionally argued Singh's non-parole interval was too lengthy and that his consumer had some prospects for rehabilitation.
Singh pleaded responsible to 4 counts of culpable driving inflicting dying, three counts of drug trafficking and different costs in March 2021 following the horrific crash on April 23, 2020.
The crash claimed the lives of Constable Lynette Taylor, Senior Constable Kevin King, and constables Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney.
Households of the 4 cops attended the enchantment listening to.