Famous croc wrangler found guilty in evidence tampering trial
Famous Australian Crocodile Wrangler Matt Wright was found guilty of lying to the police after a fatal helicopter accident and putting pressure on a hospital witness.
In 2022, the former Netflix star was accused of misleading the course of justice on the crocodile egg harvest disaster. On Friday, a jury made two criminal decisions, but the third could not agree.
Wright’s friend and Outback Wrangler, “Willow” Wilson suspended from a hanger plane died when he hit the ground. Pilot Sebastian Robinson was also seriously injured.
Prosecutors argued that Wright was trying to prove the fear of being accused of accident.
Wright claimed that he was not guilty of the charges, and his lawyers marked the decision by the jury on his 46th birthday.
Wright, who came out of the court on Friday, told journalists that he was “quite disappointed in the decision” but “he would continue to move forward with this”.
“It was destructive for everyone concerned,” he added.
Although Wright was not on board during the accident, he was among the first person on the stage in Arnhem Land, about 500km (310 miles) of Darwin.
Air Transport Safety Office found that the helicopter motor was standing in the middle of the flight because the fuel is over. Inspectors, helicopter crocodile eggs during the journey to harvest “probably did not refuel a fuel tank” and “pilot reduction did not define the fuel situation,” he said.
On Friday, Wright asked the inspectors to lie about how much fuel it is on the machine, and to falsify the injured pilot Mr. Robinson to falsify the flight recordings.
Prosecutors claimed that Wright’s helicopters separated flight time meters, so that long flight times that exceeding official standards may not be detected and worried that they would be learned.
The third number, which the Supreme Court Jury in Darwin cannot accept, contains Wright’s claim that a partner tells the helicopter to “torment”.
Wright was released on Friday. While the prosecutors asked for custody for him, stating the seriousness of his crimes, he gave Wright on the grounds that Judge Wright was not very likely that the decision would not be appealed.
Wright is known as the star of the Outback Wrangler of the best National Geographic globally and the wild Croc region of Netflix’s reality shows. It also has several local tourism enterprises and is the Australian tourism ambassador.
