Danny Abdallah lost his 3 children to a drunk driver. He just sat down with the man who killed them.

In February 2020, Danny Abdallah's world shattered in the most unimaginable way. A drunk driver took the lives of three of his children and their cousin in a single, horrific moment.

Antony, 13, his sisters Angelina, 12, and Sienna, 8, and their 11-year-old cousin Veronique Sakr, were simply walking to the shops for ice cream in Oatlands alongside 3 other children. It was still light, the kids were excited, and it should have been just another ordinary evening.

Instead, Samuel William Davidson — drunk, drugged, and speeding — ran a red light before his 4WD mounted the footpath and struck the group of children. Four young lives were gone in an instant.

The three other children were injured, with one suffering permanent brain damage.

Davidson pleaded guilty to four counts of manslaughter. He was initially sentenced to 28 years with a non-parole period of 21 years, later reduced to 20 years with 15 years non-parole.

More than five years later, Danny did something incredible. He sat down face-to-face with the man who killed his children — and made a remarkable admission.

The Oatlands crash victims.

In a 7NEWS Spotlight exclusive, Danny entered a maximum security prison to meet Davidson.

Just months after losing his children, Danny and his wife Leila had already publicly forgiven Davidson. But now? Danny has gone even further.

He says he'd rather see Davidson freed than serve his full sentence.

"If it was up to me, I'd bring him out tomorrow. I know the guy," he said.

"Justice is to have my kids back. That's all. If you've got one day, or you've got a hundred years, it's not going to change how I feel."

Danny Abdallah sat down with Oatlands crash driver Samuel Davidson in prison.

Davidson, meanwhile, believes he deserves every day of his sentence.

"I don't think I deserve that," he said of an early release.

"It was an accident and I didn't mean it, but I'm at fault and I've done that."

He called Danny "one in a million" and "an absolutely amazing man," saying: "Him even talking to me was a blessing. He keeps amazing me. He's just an incredible person and I just want to be everything like him."

In Sunday night's Spotlight episode, Davidson reflected on that devastating day.

"I started drinking, and I can't remember much," he said.

"I'm not even sure why on Earth we were driving, I just know that we ran the red light," he said.

He described having "no control" of the car, taking a corner "so fast that not even a professional race car driver could have pulled that off in a professional car".

"We had no control over the car."

Oatlands crash driver Samuel Davidson in his prison cell.

Today, Davidson spends up to 17 hours a day in his cell, which he fastidiously keeps clean. They're locked in from the early afternoon until the next morning.

He's found Christian faith while in prison — inspired, he says, by the Abdallah family's ability to forgive.

When he first arrived in prison, Davidson was placed in protective custody, 7News heard, given the nature of his offence and the publicity on the case.

He still has a decade left on his sentence.

It's not the first time Abdallah has met with Davidson, and he says the first meeting was 'nerve racking'.

"It was a moment where I saw a person that's probably living with the pain of killing four children and giving one child brain damage.

"Putting my parent hat aside, I could see that he's living in a place of guilt."

Davidson's message to Abdallah and his family has remained constant.

"Danny, I'm really sorry to you and your whole family for what I've done and all your friends, and I'm also sorry to all the emergency services that turned up on that day and had to deal with what they dealt with," he said.

"I'm deeply sorry. And I regret it for the rest of my life."

Feature image: YouTube/7NewsSpotlight.