The barrister of acquitted driver Rashminder Singh Gill criticised the police during his trial for putting him in a cell overnight when he had just learned of the deaths of his wife and son.
Andrew Fisher QC asked an officer why Mr Gill had not been bailed to return in the morning. This would have allowed him to join relatives at his daughter’s bedside at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, where she was being treated for a broken pelvis.
The officer said Mr Gill was placed in a cell all night because he was due to be interviewed the next day.
Speaking to the Mercury after his trial ended last week, Mr Gill said of his incarceration on the night of the tragedy: “It was disgusting. It was horrible being locked up like that. My daughter was in hospital, where I wanted to be – with her. I was numb, I had nothing to say to them (the police). It was just like voices in the background, I was in deep shock. All I could see were the faces of my family.”
The crash happened as Mr Gill, who runs a logistics business, was driving his wife, son and daughter home along the A50 in torrential rain after a meal at Pizza Hut, at Fosse Park, Leicester.
His wife and son died at the scene, despite paramedics chancing on the scene quickly and attempting to save them.
