A KILLER dad who crushed his 19-year-old daughter to death by running her over twice while "consumed with anger" has been jailed for life.

Nigel Malt, 44, slammed his Mercedes into his daughter Lauren Malt as she tried to protect her boyfriend from a crowbar attack from her enraged father.

The then reversed over the teen outside the home she shared with her mum and younger siblings in Norfolk on January 23.

Malt, of King's Lynn, Norfolk, then stopped before driving forwards over Lauren as she screamed in agony.

He then drove his stricken daughter to the shop where his estranged wife worked after calling her to say their daughter was dead.

The teen was rushed to hospital where medics found she had suffered a broken back, breast bone and ribs as well as traumatic injuries to her chest and abdomen during the brutal attack.

At the time, he was on bail awaiting trial on two counts of assaulting his wife in March and April 2021.

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The judge sentenced Malt to life in prison with a minimum term of 18 years, which is the amount of time he must spend behind bars before he can be considered for release.

Karen Malt, fighting back tears as she read her victim impact statement at Norwich Crown Court, said: "I remember the call saying 'I will bring your daughter over, she's dead'.

"I was screaming 'which one' to him down the phone but he wouldn't tell me."

She said that when Malt said he was driving to her, she thought that her daughter "must be okay".

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But when his car arrived and she saw inside the passenger door "the feeling of dread started to come over me".

"I just knew she wasn't going to make it," said Ms Malt.

"She was stuffed in the footwell. I saw her face and felt sick. I couldn't believe she had been stuffed down there.

"Seeing her in that position for me was worse than knowing she had been run over."

She said she tried to move her daughter into the seat, with no help from the defendant.

"I can't fathom how a parent could kill their own child," she said.

"How do you forgive?"

She said she will "forever remember that night and think about 'what if'", including what if she had left the relationship sooner.

Malt was found guilty of murdering his teenage daughter back in July following a four-week trial at Norwich Crown Court.

He had denied murdering his 19-year-old daughter outside her home in Leete Way, West Winch.

'ALCOHOL-FUELLED RAGE'

Judge Anthony Bate said Malt used his car as a "lethal weapon in an alcohol-fuelled rage in a residential street".

He told Malt: "She (Lauren) should have been safe in her father's company."

Judge Bate said Malt was tested by police at the time and found to have 170 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, more than the legal limit of 80 milligrams.

Malt, who had short-cropped grey hair and walked with a crutch, bowed his head through much of today's hearing and showed no reaction as his sentence was read out.

Andrew Jackson, prosecuting, earlier told jurors that Malt argued with his daughter and threatened her boyfriend, Arthur Marnell, with a crowbar in Leete Way.

Mr Jackson said that after Malt "failed in his bid to inflict violence" on his daughter's boyfriend and she told him to go home.

Allison Summers KC, mitigating, said: "Had he not been drinking, it's highly unlikely he would have behaved in the way that he did."

The judge directed that the two counts of assault of Karen Malt will lie on the file.

A horrified witness yelled "You've killed her, you've f***ing killed her" but Malt urged them not to call police and instead put Lauren in the passenger seat, a court heard.

After he was arrested at hospital, Malt was heard saying: “My baby. It’s my mistake that caused all this.”

Jurors were previously told in July of how the horror unfolded which resulted in a guilty verdict for Malt.

The dad had breached bail conditions imposed after he was arrested for assaulting his wife and instead drove to the shop where she worked.

Malt also made 19 phone calls to her home on January 23 this year that went unanswered.

The final call, which Lauren is believed to have picked up, lasted for one minute and six seconds with Malt arriving at the home shortly after.

'CONSUMED WITH ANGER'

The court was told he rowed with his daughter and her boyfriend, who he tried to attack with a crowbar.

He then hopped in the black Mercedes and began to drive it "at speed" into Lauren.

Prosecutor Andrew Jackson said: "She was protecting her boyfriend from the defendant, acting against the defendant and he was wholly consumed with anger.

“Looking at the defendant now, it might be hard to tell why he behaved with such deliberate and directed anger and violence.”

Jackson added that Malt had an “inability to deal with his family without resorting to anger and violence.”

In audio played to jurors, Lauren could be heard groaning after she was run over twice by her dad.

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Jurors heard that after the horror, Malt propped Lauren in the front seat while she “effectively bleeding to death” from a wound to her liver.

CCTV showed the teen's mum trying to comfort her daughter after she had been driven to her place of work.

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