Emotional’ driver tried to kill three children by driving his car ‘at some speed’ into oncoming traffic, court hears
A man set out to murder three children in his car by driving ‘at some speed’ into oncoming traffic when he was ’emotionally’ upset, a court heard today.
Tancredo Bankhardt, 41, allegedly failed to secure seat belts around his young passengers before deliberately causing a serious collision involving multiple vehicles
Norwich Crown Court was told several people were injured in the crash, including two of the children in his Vauxhall Astra who suffered serious injuries.
But jurors heard his plan to kill the children was thwarted because nobody died in the crash on the night of September 26 last year on the A146 road between Loddon and Hales in Norfolk.
Prosecutor Stephen Rose KC said Bankhardt had ‘intended to end his own life’ and the lives of the three children ‘by deliberately orchestrating a road traffic accident’.
He added: ‘The prosecution say he went about that by deliberately driving at some speed into oncoming traffic.
