{"id":342771,"date":"2025-12-12T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342771\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:49:09","slug":"reality-tv-star-jailed-for-interfering-with-crash-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342771\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV star jailed for interfering with crash probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reality TV star Matt Wright has been given a 10-month jail sentence for attempting to pervert the course of justice following a fatal helicopter crash.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old was sentenced by Acting Justice Alan Blow in the Supreme Court in Darwin on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Outback Wrangler star lost his best mate and co-star Chris \u201cWillow\u201d Wilson in the February 2022 crash that left pilot Sebastian Robinson a paraplegic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matt Wright on Outback Wrangler.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/85709459aa043772a3ea8b643e437223d8a7005c.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Wright on Outback Wrangler.Credit: National Geographic<\/p>\n<p>It happened during a crocodile-egg collecting trip in Arnhem Land while Mr Wilson was slung on a line below a chopper to drop onto nests in remote swampland.<\/p>\n<p>Wright was accused of lying to crash investigators about the amount of fuel in the machine, of trying to get Robinson to falsify flying hours and of asking a friend to \u201ctorch\u201d the helicopter\u2019s maintenance release.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors sought a jail term for Wright but his defence lawyers wanted a non-custodial sentence and are pursuing an appeal against his guilty verdicts.<\/p>\n<p>In court on Friday, Blow sentenced Wright to 10 months in prison, suspended after he serves five months.<\/p>\n<p>He was given a $5000 fine on the charge of lying to police.<\/p>\n<p>Wright bowed to the judge before he was led away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reality TV star Matt Wright has been given a 10-month jail sentence for attempting to pervert the course&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-342771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342771","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=342771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}