A man has died in a maximum security prison days after driving his car at police officers before crashing into a police station in Western New South Wales.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Donny Hobbs was denied bail on Friday after he was charged with multiple offences, including dangerous driving and damaging property in the crash at Mudgee police station.<\/p>\n
The ABC understands the 67-year-old was then taken into custody at Bathurst Correction Facility as a remand inmate staying in the maximum security part of the prison.<\/p>\n
Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) confirmed Donny Hobbs died in the prison on Wednesday, June 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CSNSW and NSW Police are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n
“Any death in custody is immediately reported to the NSW coroner and subject to a compulsory, rigorous public inquiry,” a CSNSW spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
‘Unacceptable risk’<\/p>\n
Police said that around 1:30 on Friday afternoon, Mr Hobbs drove his car at officers who were patrolling near the police station.<\/p>\n
A short time later, he then drove at another officer as he was leaving the station before crashing into the building.<\/p>\n
Commander of Orana Mid-Western Police District Superintendent Tim Chinn said the ute “narrowly missed” several police officers and a civilian.<\/p>\n
During a court appearance on Friday, Acting Judge Howard Bell refused bail, claiming Mr Hobbs posed an “unacceptable risk”.<\/p>\n
The court heard that Mr Hobbs planned the incident, and he held animosity towards police.<\/p>\n
Mudgee Police Station remains temporarily closed, with a customer service bus operating from the front and services supplemented by a nearby station.<\/p>\n
Structural assessments were underway to assess what repairs would be needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died in a maximum security prison days after driving his car at police officers before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,22394,19550,3745,20285,22395,20284],"class_list":["post-24117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-bathurst-correctional-facility","tag-corrective-services","tag-death-in-custody","tag-donny-hobbs","tag-man-who-drove-ute-into-police-station","tag-mudgee-police-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}