Baramee Janorat: Melton West plasterer’s tears after ice fuelled drive kills Bruce and Lyn Anderson

A young plasterer who killed two “beautiful” grandparents while high on ice has cried in court over the shocking crime.

A Melton West plasterer has faced court over the deaths of Baynton farming couple Bruce and Lyn Anderson. Picture: Victoria Police

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

Baramee Janorat, 24, pleaded guilty to two counts of culpable driving causing death in the County Court on Wednesday after his car ploughed into Bruce and Lyn Anderson’s vehicle in Bulla on October 10, 2019.

Janorat, who appeared via video link from Barwon Prison, 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.

“The loss of both my parents as the result of such a carless and selfish act has left me devastated and angry,” son Craig Anderson 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.”

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.

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 step-father 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 has spent 163 days in custody, will return for sentence on February 16.