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April 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A relative of an innocent mother killed when a police car involved in a chase ploughed into her vehicle cannot understand the justification for the pursuit.
Anna Mazzega yesterday told Channel 10 that police should have let the stolen car go as she laid flowers at the Dianella intersection where 50-year-old Sharon Ann D’Ercole was killed and her 16-year-old daughter Lashay was injured.
“I think you can replace a car . . . you can’t replace her life,” she said.
The Dianella mother-of-three was killed on Thursday morning when gang crime squad officers in a Ford Territory chasing a stolen Audi ran a red light and ploughed into her Toyota Corolla at the intersection of Alexander and Morley drives.
At the time of the crash, the officers had requested but not yet received permission to pursue the Audi, stolen from Applecross a few hours earlier.
As Police Minister Rob Johnson yesterday defended the need for pursuits amid Opposition claims that high-speed chases through suburban streets were too risky, there was another dangerous chase ending in a crash in City Beach.
Police aborted the chase on West Coast Highway when the gold Holden Commodore station wagon crossed into oncoming traffic about 11am.
But as the stolen car raced towards oncoming motorists, police also crossed to follow behind it, flashing their lights and sounding their siren to try to warn drivers of the oncoming danger.
No one was injured, with the allegedly stolen car mounting a kerb and coming to a halt after a truck driver blocked it in, enabling police to arrest the 25-year-old driver.
Opposition police spokeswoman Michelle Roberts labelled the chase that led to Mrs D’Ercole’s death “extraordinary”, saying a high speed pursuit did not seem necessary given the circumstances.
While Mr Johnson did not rule out changes, he said he did not want the rules in WA to be tightened so much that police were unable to pursue anyone in a vehicle.
“We simply can not give up our streets to these thugs and criminals who are committing horrific crimes in our society,” he said.
The gang crime squad constable driving the police Ford Territory potentially faces criminal charges and disciplinary action over the fatal crash.
It is understood he was travelling about 60km/h just before the crash.
Police yesterday continued their hunt for the driver of the stolen Audi as a 21-year-old man accused of being the passenger in the vehicle was remanded in custody after his first court appearance.
James Stuart Edmonds briefly faced Perth Magistrate’s Court, but did not speak and was not required to enter pleas to charges of stealing a motor vehicle and criminal damage by fire.
Lashay D’Ercole remained in Royal Perth Hospital yesterday with her family by her bedside. In a moving tribute published in today’s _The Weekend West _, Mrs D’Ercole’s husband Ron and children Bradley, Trent and Lashay described the 50-year-old as an angel sent by God.
“You filled our lives with so much love and happiness, we will always treasure your memory forever”, they wrote.
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