Dennis Basic's defence says he is 'embarrassed by his conduct', as he pleads guilty to several charges including assaulting an emergency worker, recklessly causing injury and animal cruelty.
A former prospective Hells Angel member who struck a police horse with a flag pole and hurled a traffic bollard at a mounted officer during Melbourne's infamous lockdown protests has implored a judge to show him mercy, as prosecutors denounced his "cowardly" crimes.
Basic, who was once a prospective member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, appeared from the Metropolitan Remand Centre where he has been on remand for close to year. He then confronted another officer, Leading Senior Constable Jess Walsh, who was on a horse, and struck the animal on the head multiple times.Bodycam footage played to the court showed the horse's head rearing backwards as it was struck multiple times.
But in July 2021, just four days after Premier Daniel Andrews announced that lockdown would be extended, Basic again marched into Melbourne's CBD with thousands of other protesters. "I felt angry and concerned for the safety of myself, my horse Unity, and my colleagues," she said in a victim impact statement read to the court today.
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