‘The man who had it all’: Outback Wrangler Matt Wright's downfall

Matt Wright was a wanted man. The knockabout bloke who had grown up in Queensland and South Australia had ventured to the Top End in search of opportunity.

This week Wright was charged with seven offences over issues relating to the crash, including attempting to pervert the course of justice, destroying evidence, fabricating evidence, unlawful entry and interfering with witnesses. In 2008 a Darwin crocodile farm worker was forced to shoot his mate in the arm to save him from the jaws of a saltie who had latched on while he tried to collect eggs at Marrakai Station, about 100km east of Darwin.

What happened next is now the subject of criminal charges laid against Wright and Burbidge. But the first indication that something might have gone awry out at King River didn’t come for months. On September 21 police charged Burbidge with offences including destroying evidence. At his court hearing a month later prosecutor Steve Ledek gave the first indication that the Outback Wrangler could be implicated.

Police had in fact been in fact been investigating Wright’s actions for months. They were building a case based on allegations Wright had failed to properly maintain the helicopter involved in the crash and had then sought to cover-up the failures after the crash occurred. “It pains me greatly that the series is still being shown despite the serious allegations that have been made against an individual involved in the series,” she said in an email sent to Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings this week. Netflix has so far declined to comment. On October 24 police issued another media release that raised eyebrows. It was a request for anyone who had previously travelled in the helicopter involved in the crash to come forward.

Police allege Wright regularly disconnected the Hobbs meter on the helicopter involved in the crash – call sign VH-IDW - and other choppers operated by Helibrook, and that he instructed other Helibrook employees to do the same.

A very good read. A tragic case of riches to rags, but no-one is above the law. Matt Wright will go through the wringer for what happened.

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