Truck driver Jagmeet went on Channel Seven to repeatedly deny doing anything wrong after running down and killing a pedestrian. There was just one thing wrong with his claim… and he’s finally come clean about it today

A truck driver who repeatedly denied killing a man by dangerous driving – saying it was not his fault – has finally come clean. 

After Jagmeet Singh, 31, struck and killed pedestrian Nengguang Wen in the southern Adelaide suburb of Melrose Park on February 5, he gave a TV interview to  protest his innocence. 

‘What happened was not my fault’, Singh told 7News, adding that he did not ‘know what happened, it was a blink of my eye’. 

But on Wednesday, he faced Adelaide Magistrates Court and pleaded guilty to causing the death of Mr Wen by dangerous driving.

Singh could now be jailed for up to 15 years for his crime, along with a 10 year driving ban. 

He had previously tried to get a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to a charge of driving without due care, which carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail. 

Chinese national Mr Wen, 64, who had been visiting family in Adelaide, died at the scene after being struck by Singh’s truck. 

‘It was a horrible scene, I got out of the truck and looked at the man, he was not looking good,’ Singh told reporters at the time.

‘I didn’t do it intentionally, there was no intentions to hit that person … I can’t sleep, the scene is coming again and again in front of me and my wife.

‘I would just say sorry and what happened was not my fault, I was not aware, I am not a murderer.’

After Jagmeet Singh (pictured) struck and killed pedestrian Nengguang Wen on February 5, he gave a TV interview to protest his innocence

Chinese national Mr Wen, 64, who had been visiting family in Adelaide, died at the scene (pictured) after being struck by Singh’s truck

When he faced court in May, Singh asked prosecutors to accept his guilty plea to aggravated driving without due care, but on Wednesday his lawyer Andrew Graham said ‘He is ready to be arraigned and will be pleading guilty to the major charge.’

Judge Mary-Louise Hribal recorded Singh’s new guilty plea and deleted his previous confession to the lesser offence, the Advertiser reported.

Singh was remanded on continuing bail and will appear before the District Court in November, when a date will be set for sentencing submissions.

Neither he nor Mr Wen’s family spoke outside the court.