A father accused of attempted murder of his children is set to be indicted once the compilation of evidence is concluded according to Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit.After the father spiked his children’s meals with sleeping pills and driving his van, he said he needed to urinate and stopped at White Rocks. His son went with him according to Times of Malta. A short while later, he returned to the van and asked for some water. When the girl went to get it, he suddenly became aggressive, attempting to grab her and biting her. As she fled, she heard her brother shout, “Run, or he’ll kill you.”Bodycam footage shows the girl heard telling the officers “He choked my brother and tried to choke me.”The accused told the police that he had an “altercation” with his son and that the boy fell to the ground. He said he assumed the boy was dead and headed to the van, tied a noose on a rope and tried to kill himself. He did not manage and went towards the sea and jumped.The children’s mother told police she tried contacting them but not could not get through the evening and proceeded to asking their father why they weren’t answering. To which he replied “You do not control them” at around 7.45pm.The accused called his flatmate saying “I screwed up” and later called again saying there was money at the apartment which he should use for his (The accused) funeral.When the police found the accused, he told them he tried jumping from a height to end his life but only managed to injure himself. Before being found by police, the accused was squatted in a vacant caravan where he wrote notes in a notebook.“My life changed in a few days, thanks to my wife… I love you. I took a rash decision… I love her and will not give up. We were at peace, a united family, but she wanted to destroy it,” he wrote among other things.The accused said he felt “very sorry” about what had happened. Officers informed him that his account did not align with the boy’s injuries, which included multiple blows to the head. He maintained that the boy had run off and fallen.He also acknowledged that he might have bitten his daughter and was shown bodycam footage capturing her statement to police. “I wasn’t myself,” he told officers, insisting that his actions were not under his control.No reports of violence with the children were made in the past and people said he had a good relationship them. The inspector even said his wife said she never imagined he’d do something like this.The case was adjourned to 24th April and the accused remains in custody.•