Overview
- Senior Metropolitan Police collision investigator Mark Still testified he found no defect in the Volkswagen ID.4 and could not make it move without driver input.
- The expert told jurors the vehicle was accelerating near maximum when it struck other cars and that there was no evidence of braking.
- In a police interview heard in court, Ashenafei Demissie, 53, said the car surged because five-year-old Fareed Amir touched an external sensor and denied pressing the accelerator.
- The 25 November 2022 incident outside flats near London Bridge killed Fareed and seriously injured Demissie's 12-year-old son, Raphael, before the car hit five parked vehicles.
- Demissie denies causing death by careless driving and causing serious injury by careless driving, and the trial is ongoing after being adjourned.