A NSW police officer who fatally struck a motorcyclist throughout a pursuit has been discovered not guilty of manslaughter.
Matthew James Kelly had pleaded not responsible to the cost and likewise confronted an alternate cost of harmful driving inflicting dying.
A NSW District Court docket jury discovered him not responsible of each counts on Friday, after about two and a half hours of deliberation throughout two days.
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Nonetheless, prosecutors have launched an utility to have Kelly tried for negligent driving inflicting dying utilizing the identical proof.
The police officer will reappear earlier than Choose Penelope Hock for a listening to in the identical courtroom on April four to face the brand new cost.
The trial heard Kelly was driving a NSW Police Power Kia Sorrento within the early hours of April 16, 2020, when he pursued Jack Roberts.
The 28-year-old was driving an unregistered Honda path bike up the Pacific Motorway at Blue Haven, on the Central Coast, earlier than the 2 autos collided.
Roberts died on the scene.
Supporters of each events left the courtroom in tears on Friday.
