Motorist’s electric vehicle that killed boy, 5, had ‘no faults’, court hears

Fareed Amir died after being hit by a car in south London in November 2022 - (Supplied)

An electric vehicle which killed a child had “no faults”, a court has heard, after the driver claimed it had accelerated unexpectedly while parked.

Ashenafei Demissie was sitting in his parked Volkswagen ID.4 outside his flat near London Bridge in south London, when the car moved forward at speed and killed five-year-old Fareer Amir.