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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Toby Vue

'Drift king' thought 'he was invincible' but 'failed utterly' in fatal crash: lawyer

Ameen Hamdan faces trial in the ACT Supreme Court after he crashed his Nissan Navara in October 2020 that led to his girlfriend's death. Pictures by Toby Vue and supplied

A P-plate ute driver who called himself the "drift king" thought "he was invincible" but "failed to a gross degree" to keep his passengers safe after one of them, his girlfriend, died following his collision with a tree, a prosecutor has argued.

An ACT Supreme Court trial has heard that in the early hours of October 31 in 2020, Ameen Hamdan was driving a Nissan Navara that carried his girlfriend, 16-year-old Alexis Saaghy, in the front-passenger seat and two friends in the back seats.

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