Matt Wright Prison Sentence Issued Over Crash Cover-up
December 12, 2025
3:42 am
Australian wildlife personality Matt Wright has been sentenced to five months in prison for attempting to interfere with the investigation into a 2022 helicopter crash that killed his friend and television co-star and left the pilot permanently injured.
The former Outback Wrangler and Netflix’s Wild Croc Territory star received a 10-month prison term on Friday in the Northern Territory Supreme Court, with Acting Justice Alan Blow ordering Wright to serve half before the sentence is suspended. Wright was also fined A$5,000.
Wright was convicted in August of lying to police and pressuring an injured witness in the aftermath of the …
