Overview

• The July 9 collision occurred when the stolen BMW ploughed into Highcliffe Care Home in Sunderland, injuring eight residents and causing the deaths of two elderly women.
• Sam Asgari-Tabar pleaded guilty at Newcastle Crown Court to robbery and causing serious injury by dangerous driving and denied kidnapping a woman who joined him on the test drive.
• Co-accused Reece Parish did not enter pleas on August 11 and is due to answer robbery and kidnap charges at the next hearing on August 19.
• Investigators found the BMW had been stolen in Fenham after a proposed sale and test drive and tracked along the A1231 eastbound before the five-minute police pursuit.
• Northumbria Police’s self-referral has prompted the Independent Office for Police Conduct to review the force’s high-speed pursuit procedures.