Speeding Mercedes driver ‘killed daughter of Ecuadorian politician’

A speeding Mercedes driver was travelling at more than double the speed limit when he killed the daughter of an Ecuadorian politician as she crossed the road, a court heard. Octavian Cadar, 39, collided with 28-year-old Vanessa Charlotte Sagnay de la Bastida near Wandsworth Bridge causing her to ‘somersault’ over a railing on 16 March 2022. Cadar had just left a McDonald’s restaurant on the way to see his girlfriend and was driving at more than double the speed limit,…