‘Car was a lethal weapon’

IN her witness statement Kerry Bamforth criticised the way Krilovs was able to refuse permission for his blood sample to be analysed and was given bail.

She said: ‘We feel let down by the system of justice. For the last seven months we’ve been left feeling demolished and Krilovs continues with his normal life.

‘If he has nothing to hide then surely the sample could have been tested. As a family we can only assume he’d been drinking or taking something. If this is the case and he then got in a car and drove, the moment he got in that Volvo it became a lethal weapon.

‘Krilovs made a conscious decision to drive, a decision that ultimately killed my dad and mutilated me. To us that car is no different to picking up a gun and firing it. We’ll never know what Krilovs had in his system that night but there should be a zero tolerance to it and a zero limit.’