Father drove into son and screamed ‘I will kill you’ during row over cheating

A father has been found guilty of ploughing into his son with an SUV after becoming embroiled in a bitter row over infidelity.

Kamil Mohammed Nadir, 55, assaulted his son Rebath Kamil, 40, with a Mercedes SUV at a car wash in Dalmuir, near Glasgow, after the latter accused him of infidelity.

CCTV footage of the incident shows the moment Kamil, a former freedom fighter in Iraq, drove the vehicle into his son during an altercation in July 2021.

Rebath, who was walking away from a car at the time, was smashed into a wall as the SUV rapidly accelerated into a washing area and hit him.

Although the footage had no sound, Kilmarnock High Court was told the crash victim screamed at his father ‘you tried to kill me over a woman’.

The bitter family feud began after Nadir separated from his wife, and accused Rebath of telling his siblings he had been seeing another woman.

In the hours following the attack, Rebath told police: ‘My father said my brother said I’d seen my dad with another woman.

‘I said I did not say that. I said I had seen him with someone, that’s all.’

However, the implication was enough to enrage Nadir, who the court was told had gone to the car wash to confront his sons and screamed ‘I will kill you all’ at them.

Prosecutor Donald Davidson read Rebath’s statement in court, which said: ‘I would say that my dad was trying to kill me.

‘He drove the car straight at me and he hit me with it. If he was trying to scare me he would have stopped the car but he didn’t.’

But Rebath in court denied giving this statement. 

Accompanied by an interpreter, he claimed his English was not good enough to ‘say those words.’

‘This is not my statement. These are not my words.’ 

Rebath in court claimed he did not remember anything about the incident, and said he loved his father, asking the court if he could approach him in the dock and ‘kiss his hand.’

Meanwhile, Nadir’s youngest son Datsan, told police in 2021 that he and his other brother Daban quickly began beating their dad up in the wake of the attack.  

He said: ‘We started punching my dad. We were holding on to him to stop him from leaving. He was trying to kick us and struggling with us.

‘Rebath was crying and shouting at my dad “you tried to kill me over a woman”.

‘My dad was shouting: “This is what I’m going to do to you”.’

But Datsan later backtracked on his statement and told police he had ‘fabricated’ his response to police, claiming to not remember what he said at the 

Prosecutor Davidson refuted the son’s claims though, and told him: ‘I put it to you directly that you gave this statement to police on the day when your brother was injured you were telling the truth to police that your father uttered the threat to you: “That’s what I will do to you”.

They added: ‘Isn’t it the truth that your father shouted in Kurdish “I’m going to kill you all’ before driving the Mercedes at your brother?’

Datsan admitted: ‘It was the truth at the time.’

Paul Mullen, Nadir’s defence, asked the youngest son: ‘When your father got out of the vehicle and had his hands in the air did he say he was trying to kill himself?”

Datsan replied: ‘I don’t recall. He was very shocked and pale faced.’

Mullen described Nadir as ‘a local Kurdish community leader was involved in negotiating a separation between [the children’s] parents and that separation had caused a degree of anxiety within the family.’

Despite this, Nadir was found guilty of assaulting his son to the danger of his life following a three-day trial.

Judge Scott Pattison, who remanded the former freedom fighter into custody, said: ‘It seems to me you drove your car right at him as he worked and that you did that deliberately and at speed

It was good fortune that he was not fatally injured. 

‘The reason for your attack on him is still unclear although there’s some evidence of him making an adverse report to your wife about you

‘The course of your offending constitutes very serious violence.’

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