Horror moment dad ploughs SUV into own son at car wash

A Kurdish community leader drove his high-powered Mercedes SUV into his own son at a car wash after being accused of cheating on his wife. Kamil Mohammed Nadir, 55, ploughed his vehicle into Rebath Kamil, 40, at the Local Car Wash in Dalmuir, near Glasgow, in July 2021 after he accused his father of infidelity. Horrifying CCTV footage captured the moment Kamil, a former freedom fighter from Iraq, mowed down his son.

The footage played in court, showed Nadir stalling in the car wash forecourt before rapidly accelerating into the washing area. Rebath, who had been walking away from a car, was sent crashing into a wall as his father’s car struck him with large barrels of water seen splitting under the force of the impact. While the CCTV footage has no sound, Kilmarnock High Court, where the case was heard, was told the crash victim screamed at his father, “You tried to kill me over a woman”. The court heard that the bitter feud between the father and son began after Nadir and his wife separated before Nadir accused Rebath of telling his siblings that he had been seeing another woman.

Rebath told police in the hours after the attack: “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.”

The court was told in a rage, Nadir drove to the car wash to confront his sons, screaming: “I will kill you all.”

Donald Davidson, prosecuting, read Rebath’s police statement to the court, which read: “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 appearing in court, Rebath denied making this statement and, accompanied by an interpreter, claimed his English was not good enough to “say those words”.

He added: “This is not my statement. These are not my words.”

Under oath, he said 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.”

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 in court, Datsan backtracked and said he had “fabricated” his statement to police, adding that he couldn’t remember exactly what he said at the time.

But Mr Davidson refuted the youngest son’s claims, telling 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’.

He 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, defending Nadir, described him as “a local Kurdish community leader” who was involved in negotiating a separation between [the children’s] parents and that separation had caused a degree of anxiety within the family.”

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

Remanding him into custody ahead of sentence Judge Scott Pattison 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.”