BRAMPTON

Killer driver Darren Millett stood stoically in court after hearing Thursday how he ignored passenger pleas to stop speeding drunkenly “like a jerk” before demolishing another car.

His night of revelling ended 3:25 a.m. Dec. 11 with his rented 2012 Dodge Caliber slamming at 115 km/h into a 2001 Kia Rio driven by Mounir Hamious, of Mississauga.

Peel Regional Police determined Millett, 21, of Brampton, was driving “at least” 150 km/h, but braked seconds before hitting the smaller car at Cawthra Rd. and the QEW, Crown attorney Sean Doyle told Justice Robert Kelly.

Hamious and son Djibril, 2, were ripped from their seat belts and thrown out. The 40-year-old Albania native died en route to hospital.

The driver’s wife Rebecca Ayuk, 34, suffered a broken arm as the wreck spun repeatedly, the prosecutor recounted.

Her son, who suffered head injuries, a broken arm, rib fractures and a damaged spleen, requiring a lengthy hospital stay and continuing rehabilitation.

The four Dodge occupants had minor injuries.

Doyle said the driver left a house party the previous evening, downed three beers and a mixed drink at a Sloppy Joe’s bar in Etobicoke, then began driving several friends home.

One passenger later told police that Millett drove “like a race car driver,” another said he told him to stop “driving stupid. This isn’t a video game. Slow down.’

Doyle said one passenger said the speedometer showed speeds hit 160 km/h.

Millett’s “aggressive” behaviour alerted police, who administered blood-alcohol tests that determined his booze level was almost triple the legal limit at the time of the crash.

He pleaded guilty last week to impaired driving causing death and impaired driving causing bodily harm.

Short-haired and calm, in a long-sleeve grey shirt, black pants, black shoes and clasping his hands in front, Millett presented a striking contrast to the day after the fatal crash, when he limped into a courtroom in a black leather jacket, a black hoodie and T-shirt, weeping while a total of nine charges were read.

After hearing the facts of his deadly drunk-driving spree that killed Mahious 14 days before Christmas, Millet whispered “yes” when Kelly asked if he supported the statement agreed to by his lawyer and the Crown.

Free on bail with strict conditions and facing up to four years in jail, he will be sentenced in October.

After leaving court, the victim’s family declined comment.

ian.robertson@sunmedia.ca