{"id":104949,"date":"2025-08-29T19:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104949\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:14:10","slug":"dani-wilson-speaks-after-outback-wrangler-star-found-guilty-on-two-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104949\/","title":{"rendered":"Dani Wilson speaks after Outback Wrangler star found guilty on two charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

He became a celebrity in front of the cameras wrestling crocs, but everyday for the past three and a half weeks, Matt Wright has been wrestling with the media’s glare.<\/p>\n

Today was judgement day for the Outback Wrangler, who was found guilty on two charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice after a helicopter crash that killed his mate Chris Wilson.<\/p>\n

Chris’ widow Dani Wilson addressed the media after the verdict.<\/p>\n

\"WrightWright (pictured right) was found guilty on two charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice after a helicopter crash that killed his mate Chris Wilson (pictured left). (Nine)\"Chris'Chris’ widow Dani Wilson addressed the media after the verdict. (Nine)<\/p>\n

“This has never been about theatrics, inside or outside of the courtroom,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It has been about the conviction of an individual who attempted to pervert the course of justice and in doing so, denied a complete a thorough and unimpeded investigation into the crash … investigation that could have provided my two young sons with the answers that they so much deserve.”<\/p>\n

Wright had pleaded not guilty to three charges relating to events which occurred in the weeks after the helicopter accident involving his mates.<\/p>\n

The chopper crashed during a crocodile egg-collecting mission in an isolated part of the Northern Territory.<\/p>\n

Watch the full story in the video above.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He became a celebrity in front of the cameras wrestling crocs, but everyday for the past three and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-104949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}