Dad CHRISTOPHER GRADY is on trial for murder in the death of his 5-year-old daughter and for attempted murder of his 6-year-old son. Like many, many of these cases, Daddy had recently separated from Mum, so he was a bit pissy about that. And once again, we have a father who took advantage of his overnight visitation to inflict unbelievable cruelty on his children. Witnesses say the children were screaming when Daddy floored the accelerator of his car and drove straight into the river. The 5-year-old daughter drowned. Notice that this arse warned Mum in advance of his intentions. How, um, thoughtful.
Also observe that like many abusers (and father rightsters in general) Daddy takes ZERO responsibility and blames MUM for everything. If she hadn't been trying to take HIS kids away, he wouldn't have been forced to kill them! In the delusional thinking typical of these guys and their supporters, keeping the kids "safe" is trapping them in a car and drowning them in the river like rats in a bag.
In fact, this crime was utterly predictable. Daddy had ALREADY threatened to kill these kids before. And his domination/control agenda was very clear. If he couldn't "have" them, then neither could Mum. He'd just murder them. And DESPITE ALL THIS, this f***tard apparently got overnight visitation rights anyway! Thank you, fathers rights! One more dead kid thanks to you folks! Any judge want to take credit for setting up this murder for Daddy?
Man drove into river after telling woman her children were going to die, court told
Mar 1 2011
A father accused of murdering his five-year-old daughter and attempting to kill his six-year-old son in Evesham told their mother "you've got ten seconds to say goodbye to your kids and then they are dead" before driving his car into a river as they sat on the back seat, a court has been told.
Gabrielle Grady died in hospital three days after she was rescued from the submerged vehicle in the River Avon last February. Her brother Ryan survived after being pulled from the water by police.
Prosecutor Graham Reeds QC told Birmingham Crown Court that their father, 42-year-old Christopher Grady, warned their mother Kim Smith, from whom he was separated: "This is the last time you are going to see them, they're going to die".
Grady, of no fixed address, denies both charges.
The court heard that Miss Smith telephoned Grady on February 11 after she became concerned that the children had not arrived at school following an overnight stay with their father.
Mr Reeds said: "There was a confrontation on the telephone between her and the defendant at about 9.15am when the defendant told her the children 'are never going to school again'.
"He said to her, 'be outside your house, you've got 10 seconds to say goodbye to your kids, and then they are dead'.
"A minute later he arrived in his car outside her house ... he was angry and shouting."
The prosecutor added: "He said Kim had 10 seconds to say goodbye. She remembers him shouting 'river' and then accelerating away as she made an unsuccessful grab to try and open the door to get the children out of the car."
A jury of seven women and five men was told that eye-witnesses heard the children "screaming and wailing" in the car as Grady drove towards a field next to the river.
Mr Reeds QC said a man in the field at the time described how Grady "floored" the accelerator pedal "and made straight for the river at high speed".
The prosecutor said: "The car hit the water nose-first...it floated first and then it started to sink.
"Passers-by were on the bank but there was nothing they could do even if they wanted to.
"As the car sank, eye-witnesses remember seeing one of the children banging on the back window trying to get out of the car.
"Neither child had yet learned how to swim."
The court heard that Gabrielle, known as Gabby to friends and family, was trapped inside the submerged car for around two hours before she was pulled through the sunroof by police divers.
She was airlifted from the scene to Birmingham Children's Hospital and was pronounced dead three days later, on February 14.
A pathologist found her cause of death was a lack of oxygen to the brain, caused by total immersion in cold water.
The court heard that it was a "particularly cold" and frosty morning, and the temperature of the river water was 4 degrees centigrade.
The court heard that Grady told doctors who treated him in hospital after the incident that he had driven into the river because he had "had enough" of Miss Smith "trying to take my kids away".
Mr Reeds said a number of handwritten notes were found in the car after it was pulled from the water, including one addressed to Miss Smith which read: "You led me to this, my kids with me now," and another asking a friend to put three "trees of light" at his funeral, adding, "Will you say I love my children and this is the only way to be with them and keep them safe".
The prosecutor said: "Once it had been recovered from the water the car was taken to a police compound and examined.
"There was nothing in the condition of the car that might have caused the car to go into the river.
"The prosecution say the cause was a deliberate and settled decision by the defendant to kill himself and his children by driving into the river."
He added: "He says he didn't intend to harm either of them, but the prosecution say his actions speak for themselves. If a person drives his children into a river on a freezing cold day in February - well, what else can they intend but to kill them?"
Jurors heard that Grady's life had "started to unravel" at the beginning of 2010. He had been evicted from his home because of rent arrears and owed £2,800 to the landlord of his business premises, the prosecution said.
Mr Reeds said the self-employed welder and blacksmith had threatened to kill himself and the children on a previous occasion, telling Miss Smith in November 2009: "If I can't have my kids, you can't and I'll kill them with myself."
The prosecutor said: "What he was planning is clear and the reason for it is equally clear, it came from his own words. As he said to Kim Smith back in November: 'If I can't have the kids, you can't'."
Grady was remanded in custody and the trial, which is expected to last two weeks, was adjourned until Wednesday.
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