Brett Button was facing 10 counts of manslaughter, which will be dropped in exchange for his guilty plea.
Hunter Valley bus driver Brett Button is set to plead guilty to causing the deaths of 10 people after he rolled his charter coach while transporting guests from a wine country wedding in a tragedy that shocked Australia.
Brett Button with his lawyer fronting Newcastle court in April. He will plead guilty to 10 counts of dangerous driving on Wednesday.He was facing 10 counts of manslaughter, which will be dropped in exchange for his guilty plea, and prosecutors will request Button be arrested and enter custody ahead of his sentence.
Button was driving a coach transporting 35 guests from a wedding on June 11 last year when the vehicle rolled over at a roundabout on Wine Country Drive at Greta.“There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about what happened that day, that night,” Button said through his lawyer, Chris O’Brien, outside court earlier this year.“There isn’t an hour that goes by where I am not thinking of the families that have been affected by my actions.
A police fact sheet, obtained exclusively by this masthead, revealed Button appeared to goad his worried passengers as he sped through the winding roads.
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