TWO men have been convicted after a crash which claimed the lives of two young brothers.
Sedgley school pupil Sanjay Singh and his younger brother Pawanveer died after the car they were travelling in with their mother was hit by a high-powered Audi on Birmingham New Road, Wolverhampton, in 2019.
Audi driver Mohammed Sullaiman Khan reached speeds of 90mph before he went through a red light and hit the BMW the boys and their mother were in at around 8.45pm at the junction with Lawnswood Avenue.
Sanjay, aged 10, and 23-month-old Pawanveer were in their pyjamas and heading home after collecting their supper from a fish bar where their dad worked.
Both boys suffered catastrophic injuries and were pronounced dead at the scene. Their mother Arithi Nahar suffered serious injuries in the crash.
The BMW had been turning right when the Audi careered through a red light and hit the other car, pushing it across the verge and into metal railings.
Khan fled the scene and by 10pm he was in a burger bar in Sparkbrook.
At 10.20pm police were called by Mohammed Asim Khan saying his brother Mohammed Sullaiman Khan's car had been taken in a car-key burglary earlier that day.
Mohammed Sullaiman Khan, aged 27, of Pershore Road, Edgbaston, admitted two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, and one count of causing serious injury. He also admitted perverting the course of justice.
After a trial, Mohammed Asim Khan, aged 35, of Shaftmoor Lane, Hall Green, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice for lying to police.
Mohammed Adil Khan, aged 34, of Newnham Road, Edgbaston, and Rashane Henry, aged 31, of Fairway Green, Bilston, were cleared of perverting the course of justice.
The driver of a Bentley, Hamza Shahid, aged 35, of Newbridge Road, Birmingham, which was being driven near the Audi, was found not guilty of causing death by dangerous driving and also not guilty of causing serious injury.
He denied racing the Audi and told the court he had been speeding to avoid the aggressive driving of Khan.
A sixth man Tejinder Singh, aged 30, of Babors Field, Bilston, who denies conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and assisting an offender, will be tried at a date to be confirmed.
The Khan brothers will be sentenced at a later date.
DC Karl Davies, from the West Midlands Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said: "Our duty was to Sanjay and Pawanveer and to their family, who have been so brave throughout.
"It is awful, almost beyond words, for two young brothers to be killed in such a dreadful collision."
The family of the youngsters said: “We as parents of Sanjay and Pawanveer miss them terribly, we will never see them grow up into teenagers and then later as adults. We have been robbed of that.
"Our boys were taken away in a blink of an eye on March 14, 2019. The day that our lives and our home died too.
“With the support of our family, friends, loved ones, colleagues and professionals like Victim Support and Edwards Trust we have developed a new way of living again with this constant pain and bleed in our hearts.”
They said a sunshine garden created at Cotwall End Primary School, Sedgley, where Sanjay was a pupil, has provided a place for family and friends to visit and remember their sons and they added: “It’s there where we feel at peace after the sad loss of both of our sons.”
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