Emotional scenes in court as car thief high on meth who ran down and killed a hero young cop learns his fate

A drug-affected car thief who ran implicit and killed a young 'hero' policeman aft the serviceman tasered him has been recovered blameworthy of manslaughter.

Reagan Ainslie Chown pleaded not blameworthy successful the West Australian Supreme Court to manslaughter implicit the late-night June 8, 2023 incidental that led to Constable Anthony Woods' death.

The 25-year-old said helium was not liable for the calamity due to the fact that the serviceman changeable him with a Taser and it caused him to suffer power of a stolen car.

A assemblage connected Tuesday took little than 3 hours to find Chown blameworthy of manslaughter.

Const Woods' loved ones and colleagues, including WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch, wept with alleviation and hugged aft the blameworthy verdict was delivered.

The tribunal heard Chown and 2 others had fled from constabulary successful a stolen Holden Cruz earlier stopping successful a cul-de-sac.

Const Woods, 28, opened the Holden driver's doorway and attempted to detain Chown, who was down the steering wheel.

The serviceman fired his Taser into the moving car earlier 'falling and being dragged nether the accused's conveyance to his eventual death'.

CCTV footage played for the assemblage showed the Holden reversing astatine speed, mounting a kerb and stopping aft it deed a bollard.

During the video, Constable Woods tin beryllium heard doubly saying 'stay wherever you are' and 'Taser' arsenic the conveyance moved backwards.

A large ace tin besides beryllium heard.

Prosecutor Justin Whalley explained during his opening submissions it was the dependable of Constable Woods' Taser firing, earlier helium disappears beneath the moving car.

'Constable Woods became trapped nether the accused's car,' Mr Whalley said.

'He was taken to infirmary but his injuries were not survivable.'

The tribunal heard his decease respective days aboriginal was owed to complications of cardiac apprehension caused by mechanical compression of the thorax and abdomen.

Mr Whalley said Chown was attempting to fly earlier Const Woods tasered him.

He said Chown was nether the power of methamphetamine and successful possession of the cause erstwhile the incidental happened.

Const Woods, who had conscionable passed his probation, was farewelled earlier astir 2000 constabulary officers, family, friends and dignitaries astatine Perth's Optus Stadium.

Outside court, Const Woods' mother, Natalie Woods, said her household was overwhelmed and satisfied with the verdict.

'Now we tin fto him remainder and commencement conscionable surviving his representation the champion mode we can,' she said.

Mr Blanch said Const Woods was a hero.

'He volition ever beryllium successful our memories,' helium said.

'The bluish household is hurting... and we've been hurting since this happened, but contiguous is simply a tiny portion of justness that volition unrecorded successful our hearts.'

Asked astir Chown's defence stating Const Woods had placed himself successful a unsafe position, Mr Blanch said the comments were 'offensive and disgusting'.

'I cull immoderate conception that Anthony should not person done what helium did... helium did his occupation (and) helium ne'er got to spell location from his displacement that night,' helium said.

Chown was primitively charged with execution but it was downgraded to manslaughter the week earlier his trial.

He volition beryllium sentenced connected July 3.

Chown antecedently pleaded blameworthy to stealing the car and reckless driving to flight police.