An Audi driver has been charged with manslaughter after two brothers were killed in a car crash when the Subaru Impreza they were driving smashed into a tree.
Brothers Xavier, 10, and Peter Abreu, nine, died after the sedan crashed into the tree on the Grand Parade in Monterey, Sydney, at 21.50 on 25 August 2023.
On Thursday it emerged that a 25-year-old man is now facing two further charges of manslaughter over the boys’ tragic deaths.
The boys’ cousin Jimmy Brito, 33, was driving the car they were in and was charged with two counts of serious dangerous driving causing death and one count of causing bodily harm in the act of misconduct.
The 25-year-old, who was driving an Audi and allegedly street-raced Brito before the crash, had previously been charged with offenses including serious dangerous driving causing death and two counts of failing to stop and render assistance after impact causing Death.
Xavier Abreu, 10, (left) and his brother Peter, nine, died when the car they were in crashed into a tree on Grand Parade in Monterey, in Sydney’s south, last August.
After ‘further enquiries’, the police announced that he is now also charged with two counts of manslaughter.
He will appear at Downing Center Local Court in Sydney’s CBD on May 2.
Brito, who is in custody, also appears in the same court on the same day.
A 24-year-old woman, who police allege was a passenger in the Audi, was charged with concealing a serious indictable offense and remains on conditional bail.
She is due in court on April 11.
At the time, Detective Inspector Jason Hogan described the crash scene as horrific.
“It’s a particularly nasty crash where two innocent young children have lost their lives,” he said at the time.
Police claimed in court documents that Brito was driving in a ‘dangerous manner to another person’ at the time of the collision.
The Abreu boys’ cousin, a nine-year-old girl, was also in the car and suffered minor injuries.
The scene of a devastating crash in which two young brothers lost their lives is pictured
The boys, who were in the back seat, were freed from the wreckage and taken to Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick, where they died a short time later.
The girl in the front passenger seat was also taken to the hospital for minor injuries.
The boys are survived by their father Samuel, mother Olimpia Aliferis, stepmother Jivonne Garrido and brothers Alex and Jacob.
People are pictured leaving flowers at the Monterey tragedy in Sydney’s south
