Baramee Janorat: Melton West plasterer jailed after ice fuelled drive kills Bruce and Lyn Anderson

A young Melton West plasterer who killed two “beautiful” grandparents while high on ice has learnt his fate.

A Melton West man has been jailed over the deaths of Lyn and Bruce Anderson at Bulla in October 2019. Picture: Victoria Police

A Melton West plasterer who was high on ice when he killed a husband and wife in a horror smash in Melbourne’s northwest has been jailed.

Baramee Janorat, 24, was sentenced to 12 years behind bars in the County Court on Tuesday after his car ploughed into Bruce and Lyn Anderson’s vehicle in Bulla on October 10, 2019.

It comes after Janorat sobbed as the couple’s relatives described the shock loss of the “loving nanny and poppy” from Baynton who proudly ran the family’s sixth-generation farm.

“You should not have been driving with any ice in your system … you drive with a primed syringe within reach,” Judge Rosemary Carlin told Janorat.

“It was selfish and dangerous and caused the deaths of two completely innocent people.”

Shock dashcam footage of the incident, recorded by a trailing driver, shows the fatal moment Janorat — then 22 — veered into the wrong lane and slammed into the couple’s car on Sunbury Rd about 3.20pm.

Mr Anderson, 69, and Ms Anderson, 68, who were travelling home after a trip to Melbourne, died at the scene.

Witnesses who rushed to the scene found a syringe in Janorat’s vehicle, and described his eyes as “rolling into his head”.

Other drivers witnessed Janorat, who had been returning home from a job in Sunbury, driving recklessly and screaming from his window minutes before the crash.

“He didn’t look like he knew what happened,” one crash witness told police.

Janorat was flown to Royal Melbourne Hospital where ice and ketamine was detected in his blood.

At Janorat’s plea on February 3, Mr and Mrs Anderson’s son Craig said the tragedy had left his family shattered.

“The loss of both my parents as the result of such a careless and selfish act has left me devastated and angry,” he said.

“It has not only taken my mum and dad from me but my also my best friends. It’s also taken a loving nanny and poppy from their grandchildren.”

The defence said Janorat, who was born in Thailand, fell into drug use after he was expelled from school in Melbourne in Year 10.

His mother and stepfather sent him back to Thailand a number of times where he trained as a monk and in military service as a form of rehabilitation, Judge Rosemary Carlin heard.

Janorat was supported by his family in court.

“He thinks about his actions every day,” the defence said.

“He made a poor decision when the temptation was there … he fell right back into the grip of using methamphetamine.”

Janorat, who had already spent 176 days in custody, will be eligible for parole in seven years and two months.