January 24, 2021 • 20 mins
A group of seven carefree siblings and cousins, enjoying a moment of childhood independence as they walked to get ice cream from the shops on a hot Australian summer evening. There was laughter and jokes as they took turns on a bicycle – when without warning the unthinkable.
In the blink of an eye, an alleged drunk driver ploughs his out-of-control ute into the group at more than 100 kilometres per hour. Four young lives were instantly lost by the side of the road at Oatlands in Sydney’s west that fateful day in February this year – not even 10 minutes from their home. Three siblings, Antony Abdallah, 13, Angelina Abdallah, 12, and Sienna Abdallah, 8, and their cousin Veronique Sakr, 11, who now share the same grave. It was a tragedy that rocked all of Australia. The details would break any heart.
Dedicated to honouring the memories of their children, these courageous families open up to Michael Usher in this emotional story no parent can miss.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
H my name is char Brocas says. So this is
what happened in February. The first we were going in
a walk on a walk to celebrate my sisters birth
(00:20):
day and to get our scream, and a car just
came out of floor are and just hit us from
the back and made me go into coma. And he
made four four of my best friends doi yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
In the blue corner fighting out of the bulldog gym
in Castle Hill. Lady and gentlemen, Danny the Undertaker.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Okay, catch gloves now and you.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Can come out fighting. It was a bit of a
rough head.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
I used to be riding to martial arts, kickboxing. I'd
be training on the weekends, sparring.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Cover Cop coming up Cop Tructor.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
I love my work.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I was in construction, so I was just a typical
Western Sydney boy trying to, you know, make a bug.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
If I have a first story, it would be the
greatest story ever told. I'd write it about my daddy
for you heart of Gold to see.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah then.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Mhm.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
My name is Daniel Dalla. I have a wife, Lailah,
six beautiful children I'm been blessed with. Yesterday I lost
three of my children cousin Bridget she lost her daughter
as well. I don't know what to say.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
Thank you, thank you very.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Much, sir, thank you, hello, welcome to I don't know again.
Speaker 9 (03:20):
So, Danny abdelah, if your daughter was to get married
at ninety, finish.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
Your study and then get married.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
My wife she gets married at nineteen because I wanted
to get married.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
From the moment, Danny laid eyes on Laila.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
He knew she was the one.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Born and raised in Lebanon, Layla is from a devout
Catholic family. Her prayers weren't for show. Growing up. She
wanted to be a bride of Christ.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Could you have seen yourself becoming a nun? Yes, that
makes you very happy.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
I wanted to become a nun or I wanted to
get married and start a family, And either way I
wanted to honor God.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
It took a bit longer for Danny to truly find God.
He was raised in Sydney's tough western suburbs, hung out
with the wrong crowd, then got into kickboxing and became
a champion.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
In two thousand and three, After hanging up.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
The gloves, Danny went to Lebanon to see relatives, but
all he really noticed was an attractive nineteen year old
girl who'd never been kissed.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
We were out at a party and I saw Danny
from far away, but I didn't think of nothing. I
thought he was handsome, but that's.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
It over there, they're very tradition.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
You can't you can't get through the window, you gotta
get through the door.
Speaker 9 (05:03):
The next day he came to our house and the
first question he asked me do you pray? And that
was enough for me to fall in love with him
from the first.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yeah, I couldn't speak Arabic wal and you couldn't speak English, Will,
but there was a connection.
Speaker 9 (05:32):
I didn't care about his past, who he was. I
saw his beautiful heart. I feel like I'm blessed to
have Daddy in my life.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Thanks, I love you. There was a connection spiritually, and
we always knew that. You know, God was the center
of our relationship. We always put him first. And we
(06:04):
grew together and we had six kids in nine years.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
In quick order.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Danny and Layla had Anthony, Angelina, Leanna healthy birthday.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Sienna.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
I had, he had a fe day, Alex I got it,
have fun.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
And Michael.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
As their family grew, so too did Danny's business humble beginnings.
Danny built a construction company worth millions, But the job
he's most proud of is being a dad.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
My kids are my hobby. Anytime I'm not at work,
I'm with them. Six was easy for us.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Until February. They were a big family of eight. Today
they're a family of five. Three children gone and irreplaceable lots.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
Anthony and Jelina Siena are gone.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Yeah, not a minute goes past. Well, I don't think
about them every minute of every day.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
I was cheeky. She was our diva Sienna. We have
seven minutes to make it to your school. How then, yeah,
how do you think we are going to make it?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
I'm pray, okay start Our father hot to heaven.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
He's such a beautiful little girl. She was tiny, but
she should stand out in the crowd.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
She's full of life, full of life.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
She was very caring, very loving. She was a little
diva Angelina. She was the most beautiful thing I have
ever seen in my life on this earth. I used
(09:09):
to call her my little Hope.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
I used to call her my second mom. Beautiful, selfless, courageous.
She's a good public speaker. An today was a gentleman, loving, caring, soft,
best kisser. He had very good lips.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Shop Why ah, Anthony. He was my buddy, my best mate.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
We do everything together.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
He was always by my side. You know, he was
becoming a teenager and was I was really enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
He was that kid man. I miss him heaps.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Sorry, Yeah, you don't have to be sorry. These are
special children that you're describing.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Oh, they were kids. They were still you know, they'd
still argue and make up and that.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
But they were my world.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Leila and I look at each other and say, you
know what, We did everything we could as parents, so
their love tanks were full.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
On the morning of February one this year, Danny drove
Anthony into town to play basketball for King's School against
Sydney Grammer.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Funny enough, rarely happens that we were half an hour earlier.
I looked at Sydney Grammar. I looked in front of
me and St Mary's Cathedral was there. So I said,
you know what, we've got half an hour? I said, come,
I want to show you something.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Dad walked in.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
I said, Anthony, look I look at this building. Hecause
it's beautiful. I said, Dad, let me tell you they
built this in honor of God. So I was walking
out and there was a statue of Saint Anthony of
Padowa and I looked at it. I said, Anthony, you
know who that guy is? Again now, I said, that's
(11:22):
Saint Anthony of Padowa. I named you after him. And
he was very happy.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
And then he looked at me that.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Day and he walked out and we spoke because at
the time, Kobe Bryant had just recently passed away, and
we spoke about it, and he said, let's let's let's
play this.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
One for Kobe.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
And he was the best game he ever played in
his life.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
That afternoon, we're back at Daddy's place. A whole lot
of kids arrived on mass cousins, nieces, and nephews.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
There was a party to celebrate.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
It was a special day because it was my daughter birthday,
my bede, her thirteenth birthday, So when we came, it
was a very special day.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Runnia is Lailah's sister. Her daughter and son are mar
Belle and Chabelle.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
The kids were very excited to come and celebrate the
birthday altogether with the cousin.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Also, there was another cousin, eleven year old Veronique.
Speaker 10 (12:51):
It was like a really hot day. That's why I
wanted to go to Iceland.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
At around seven thirty seven of the children got Danny's
permission to walk to the local shop a couple of
kilometers away.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
It was a hot day. I thought, wow, these young
kids the age of eight p thirteen, they're old enough
to do a walk together. There was a little bit
of freedom. I thought, you know what, I let them
go for that walk.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
The one who walked for ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Not even ten minutes, fifteen minutes.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Yeah, this was pure innocence. This was a hot Australian
summer day and kids going to get an ice cream.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
That's all it was. And it just turned into something
just was It was sunlight and as soon as that happened,
it just became dark.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Also in the area that evening was Samuel William Davidson.
He ended up made were driving in the streets around
Oakland's in Sydney's Northwest. Police alleged Davidson was speeding at
over one hundred kilometers an hour in a fifty kilometer zone.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
A car just came out of floor air and he
made four four of my best friends.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Although I car just.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
Came and hit us from the back. I just felt
this big dash of wind. But when I got up,
the car was running over the bike. So I still
saw the car still driving on the footpath and like.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
The bike just popped because he was on the bike.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
Char Bell, the passenger, he came down to me and
he was like to me, I'm so sorry, and he
was hitting his face. I was like, I tried to
see if Angina was breathing. She wasn't arranch it. All
the bodies, they were all they they weren't breathing. Even
he wasn't breathing.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I went up to him.
Speaker 10 (15:02):
I was like, Shabelle, please wake up Sienna. I couldn't
see her because she was inside the fence with the
head down, and I didn't want to go up to her.
And Ernie was at the hardest one to go.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
To because she was over the fence.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
When did you first learn that something had gone wrong?
That afternoon, I was in.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
The house then Number called my phone straight away.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
As soon as I got up, I told everyone to
call the ambulance. I called my mom and told her
to come and.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
She told me come come now. So I started screaming,
what happened. She told me, I don't know, Angelina can't breathe.
And then I saw Danny.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
I told him, Danny, Danny, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Chomping the car.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Quickly, I saw her sister run out, screaming, something's happened.
I'm thinking, man Anthony Schabel to the two boys, I
can't believe that they ran across the road. I can't
believe they've done something stupid. That's what I was thinking,
and Daddy, I took off.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
I took off, but then seconds hours behind them. It
was the accidents. It's only one street away from my house.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
As soon as I got there, it was an eerie feeling.
It's like I was in a war zone. I remember
one block came up to me screaming, mate, we're gonna
let these parents. We gotta tell these parents. We want
to tell these parents. I looked at him and I said,
these are my kids, and he was like, he sort
(16:43):
of fell back. He didn't know what to say. I
saw them.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
I went up to each one.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I knew they were gone.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
What I saw I saw a Jelena Siena, a Veronic
and I was in chuck that. Leanda quickly read to
me she was bleeding, and she goes, mom, I'm so
scared that she hugged me.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
I got Blaida. I said, go to the ambulance. Now
go focus on Leanna.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
We've got Leana.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
You know I tried to do mouth to mouth with Anthony.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
It didn't work. So you did try to revive your son, Yeah,
it didn't work.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I saw Angelina.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
She was gone.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Sienna wasn't good at all, and Veronic wasn't good. Then
the police came. I got sort of pushed away, pushed away,
pushed away. I just put the tape crime scene. I
looked like that, I said, just each child getting covered.
(18:06):
I went to the hospital. Leanna's there. Where's my brother
and sisters? I said, they're next door, No worry, they'll
be fine. Okay, you had to say that. I had
to say that.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And then.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
What happened after that? The nurse said, mate, done, Lord
to your kid. She's still gonna trust her.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
She's right.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I never know her.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I came up to her.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
I said, Leana, Anthony, Angeline, and Sienna they have gone
to be with God. She has named by name Anthony.
I said, yes, she has Angelina. She starts crying. I said, yes,
she has not seen. I said yes, I'm sorry. I can't.
I can't do anything about it. And she she goes,
(18:57):
I don't want to be the oldest in the family.
That was the hardest thing to do. It's probably the
hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
To say that to your daughter. You would have been
well forgiven for falling in an absolute heap on that
spot right there and not got up.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
When you're a dad, you can't.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
You got to step up. You look after your family.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Even though you've lost half your family, you still don't
want to lose all your family, half your family.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
In one go and far too young.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I had a link of an eye in the blink
of an oil.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
The driver is a twenty nine year old male who's
local to the Oaklands area and in his car he
had a twenty four year old male passenger and he
was driving a dual four wheel drive Mitxbishi. There were
seven children involved. Four children have been confirmed deceeased. The
(20:12):
mail has been arrested and has been taken to hospital
for mandatory blood and urine tests. He was indoor back
to Castle Police Station where he's subjected to a breath
analysis which go a reading of
H my name is char Brocas says. So this is
what happened in February. The first we were going in
a walk on a walk to celebrate my sisters birth
(00:20):
day and to get our scream, and a car just
came out of floor are and just hit us from
the back and made me go into coma. And he
made four four of my best friends doi yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
In the blue corner fighting out of the bulldog gym
in Castle Hill. Lady and gentlemen, Danny the Undertaker.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Okay, catch gloves now and you.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Can come out fighting. It was a bit of a
rough head.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
I used to be riding to martial arts, kickboxing. I'd
be training on the weekends, sparring.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Cover Cop coming up Cop Tructor.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
I love my work.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I was in construction, so I was just a typical
Western Sydney boy trying to, you know, make a bug.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
If I have a first story, it would be the
greatest story ever told. I'd write it about my daddy
for you heart of Gold to see.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah then.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Mhm.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
My name is Daniel Dalla. I have a wife, Lailah,
six beautiful children I'm been blessed with. Yesterday I lost
three of my children cousin Bridget she lost her daughter
as well. I don't know what to say.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
Thank you, thank you very.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Much, sir, thank you, hello, welcome to I don't know again.
Speaker 9 (03:20):
So, Danny abdelah, if your daughter was to get married
at ninety, finish.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
Your study and then get married.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
My wife she gets married at nineteen because I wanted
to get married.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
From the moment, Danny laid eyes on Laila.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
He knew she was the one.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Born and raised in Lebanon, Layla is from a devout
Catholic family. Her prayers weren't for show. Growing up. She
wanted to be a bride of Christ.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Could you have seen yourself becoming a nun? Yes, that
makes you very happy.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
I wanted to become a nun or I wanted to
get married and start a family, And either way I
wanted to honor God.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
It took a bit longer for Danny to truly find God.
He was raised in Sydney's tough western suburbs, hung out
with the wrong crowd, then got into kickboxing and became
a champion.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
In two thousand and three, After hanging up.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
The gloves, Danny went to Lebanon to see relatives, but
all he really noticed was an attractive nineteen year old
girl who'd never been kissed.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
We were out at a party and I saw Danny
from far away, but I didn't think of nothing. I
thought he was handsome, but that's.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
It over there, they're very tradition.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
You can't you can't get through the window, you gotta
get through the door.
Speaker 9 (05:03):
The next day he came to our house and the
first question he asked me do you pray? And that
was enough for me to fall in love with him
from the first.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yeah, I couldn't speak Arabic wal and you couldn't speak English, Will,
but there was a connection.
Speaker 9 (05:32):
I didn't care about his past, who he was. I
saw his beautiful heart. I feel like I'm blessed to
have Daddy in my life.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Thanks, I love you. There was a connection spiritually, and
we always knew that. You know, God was the center
of our relationship. We always put him first. And we
(06:04):
grew together and we had six kids in nine years.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
In quick order.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Danny and Layla had Anthony, Angelina, Leanna healthy birthday.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Sienna.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
I had, he had a fe day, Alex I got it,
have fun.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
And Michael.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
As their family grew, so too did Danny's business humble beginnings.
Danny built a construction company worth millions, But the job
he's most proud of is being a dad.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
My kids are my hobby. Anytime I'm not at work,
I'm with them. Six was easy for us.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Until February. They were a big family of eight. Today
they're a family of five. Three children gone and irreplaceable lots.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
Anthony and Jelina Siena are gone.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Yeah, not a minute goes past. Well, I don't think
about them every minute of every day.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
I was cheeky. She was our diva Sienna. We have
seven minutes to make it to your school. How then, yeah,
how do you think we are going to make it?
Speaker 7 (08:11):
I'm pray, okay start Our father hot to heaven.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
He's such a beautiful little girl. She was tiny, but
she should stand out in the crowd.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
She's full of life, full of life.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
She was very caring, very loving. She was a little
diva Angelina. She was the most beautiful thing I have
ever seen in my life on this earth. I used
(09:09):
to call her my little Hope.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
I used to call her my second mom. Beautiful, selfless, courageous.
She's a good public speaker. An today was a gentleman, loving, caring, soft,
best kisser. He had very good lips.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Shop Why ah, Anthony. He was my buddy, my best mate.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
We do everything together.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
He was always by my side. You know, he was
becoming a teenager and was I was really enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
He was that kid man. I miss him heaps.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Sorry, Yeah, you don't have to be sorry. These are
special children that you're describing.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Oh, they were kids. They were still you know, they'd
still argue and make up and that.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
But they were my world.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Leila and I look at each other and say, you
know what, We did everything we could as parents, so
their love tanks were full.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
On the morning of February one this year, Danny drove
Anthony into town to play basketball for King's School against
Sydney Grammer.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Funny enough, rarely happens that we were half an hour earlier.
I looked at Sydney Grammar. I looked in front of
me and St Mary's Cathedral was there. So I said,
you know what, we've got half an hour? I said, come,
I want to show you something.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Dad walked in.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
I said, Anthony, look I look at this building. Hecause
it's beautiful. I said, Dad, let me tell you they
built this in honor of God. So I was walking
out and there was a statue of Saint Anthony of
Padowa and I looked at it. I said, Anthony, you
know who that guy is? Again now, I said, that's
(11:22):
Saint Anthony of Padowa. I named you after him. And
he was very happy.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
And then he looked at me that.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Day and he walked out and we spoke because at
the time, Kobe Bryant had just recently passed away, and
we spoke about it, and he said, let's let's let's
play this.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
One for Kobe.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
And he was the best game he ever played in
his life.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
That afternoon, we're back at Daddy's place. A whole lot
of kids arrived on mass cousins, nieces, and nephews.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
There was a party to celebrate.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
It was a special day because it was my daughter birthday,
my bede, her thirteenth birthday, So when we came, it
was a very special day.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Runnia is Lailah's sister. Her daughter and son are mar
Belle and Chabelle.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
The kids were very excited to come and celebrate the
birthday altogether with the cousin.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Also, there was another cousin, eleven year old Veronique.
Speaker 10 (12:51):
It was like a really hot day. That's why I
wanted to go to Iceland.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
At around seven thirty seven of the children got Danny's
permission to walk to the local shop a couple of
kilometers away.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
It was a hot day. I thought, wow, these young
kids the age of eight p thirteen, they're old enough
to do a walk together. There was a little bit
of freedom. I thought, you know what, I let them
go for that walk.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
The one who walked for ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Not even ten minutes, fifteen minutes.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Yeah, this was pure innocence. This was a hot Australian
summer day and kids going to get an ice cream.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
That's all it was. And it just turned into something
just was It was sunlight and as soon as that happened,
it just became dark.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Also in the area that evening was Samuel William Davidson.
He ended up made were driving in the streets around
Oakland's in Sydney's Northwest. Police alleged Davidson was speeding at
over one hundred kilometers an hour in a fifty kilometer zone.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
A car just came out of floor air and he
made four four of my best friends.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Although I car just.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
Came and hit us from the back. I just felt
this big dash of wind. But when I got up,
the car was running over the bike. So I still
saw the car still driving on the footpath and like.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
The bike just popped because he was on the bike.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
Char Bell, the passenger, he came down to me and
he was like to me, I'm so sorry, and he
was hitting his face. I was like, I tried to
see if Angina was breathing. She wasn't arranch it. All
the bodies, they were all they they weren't breathing. Even
he wasn't breathing.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I went up to him.
Speaker 10 (15:02):
I was like, Shabelle, please wake up Sienna. I couldn't
see her because she was inside the fence with the
head down, and I didn't want to go up to her.
And Ernie was at the hardest one to go.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
To because she was over the fence.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
When did you first learn that something had gone wrong?
That afternoon, I was in.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
The house then Number called my phone straight away.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
As soon as I got up, I told everyone to
call the ambulance. I called my mom and told her
to come and.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
She told me come come now. So I started screaming,
what happened. She told me, I don't know, Angelina can't breathe.
And then I saw Danny.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
I told him, Danny, Danny, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Chomping the car.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Quickly, I saw her sister run out, screaming, something's happened.
I'm thinking, man Anthony Schabel to the two boys, I
can't believe that they ran across the road. I can't
believe they've done something stupid. That's what I was thinking,
and Daddy, I took off.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
I took off, but then seconds hours behind them. It
was the accidents. It's only one street away from my house.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
As soon as I got there, it was an eerie feeling.
It's like I was in a war zone. I remember
one block came up to me screaming, mate, we're gonna
let these parents. We gotta tell these parents. We want
to tell these parents. I looked at him and I said,
these are my kids, and he was like, he sort
(16:43):
of fell back. He didn't know what to say. I
saw them.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
I went up to each one.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I knew they were gone.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
What I saw I saw a Jelena Siena, a Veronic
and I was in chuck that. Leanda quickly read to
me she was bleeding, and she goes, mom, I'm so
scared that she hugged me.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
I got Blaida. I said, go to the ambulance. Now
go focus on Leanna.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
We've got Leana.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
You know I tried to do mouth to mouth with Anthony.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
It didn't work. So you did try to revive your son, Yeah,
it didn't work.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I saw Angelina.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
She was gone.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Sienna wasn't good at all, and Veronic wasn't good. Then
the police came. I got sort of pushed away, pushed away,
pushed away. I just put the tape crime scene. I
looked like that, I said, just each child getting covered.
(18:06):
I went to the hospital. Leanna's there. Where's my brother
and sisters? I said, they're next door, No worry, they'll
be fine. Okay, you had to say that. I had
to say that.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And then.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
What happened after that? The nurse said, mate, done, Lord
to your kid. She's still gonna trust her.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
She's right.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I never know her.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I came up to her.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
I said, Leana, Anthony, Angeline, and Sienna they have gone
to be with God. She has named by name Anthony.
I said, yes, she has Angelina. She starts crying. I said, yes,
she has not seen. I said yes, I'm sorry. I can't.
I can't do anything about it. And she she goes,
(18:57):
I don't want to be the oldest in the family.
That was the hardest thing to do. It's probably the
hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
To say that to your daughter. You would have been
well forgiven for falling in an absolute heap on that
spot right there and not got up.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
When you're a dad, you can't.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
You got to step up. You look after your family.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Even though you've lost half your family, you still don't
want to lose all your family, half your family.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
In one go and far too young.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I had a link of an eye in the blink
of an oil.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
The driver is a twenty nine year old male who's
local to the Oaklands area and in his car he
had a twenty four year old male passenger and he
was driving a dual four wheel drive Mitxbishi. There were
seven children involved. Four children have been confirmed deceeased. The
(20:12):
mail has been arrested and has been taken to hospital
for mandatory blood and urine tests. He was indoor back
to Castle Police Station where he's subjected to a breath
analysis which go a reading of
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