The wife of the California doctor accused of intentionally driving a Tesla off a cliff with his family inside last year begged prosecutors to drop his attempted murder charges during courtroom testimony Thursday.

The wife of the man who drove his family off a cliff testified Thursday, saying he should be released from jail into a mental health program and calling him “kind and altruistic.”

The wife of Dharmesh Arvind Patel, the doctor accused of driving his family’s Tesla off a 250-foot cliff, asked a judge on Thursday, May 2, to rule toward mental health treatment instead of prison time for her husband.

Dharmesh Patel, 42, was experiencing hallucinations, hearing footsteps and believed his children had been sex trafficked, two doctors testified at a hearing on Wednesday in Redwood City.

American-Indian radiologist Dharmesh Patel directed the family vehicle off a Devil Slide cliff in California and onto the rocks below, having informed his panicking wife Neha of his stomach-wrenching intentions just moments prior.

Dharmesh Arvind Patel, the father who drove his wife and two children off of a cliff in California in January, was suffering a psychotic break at the time of the crash, two doctors testified in court on April 24,

An American doctor who drove his wife and two children off a cliff in the family Tesla was suffering a psychotic break and thought he was protecting his kids from sex trafficking, a court has heard.

The wife of a California doctor accused of deliberately driving a car off a cliff with his family inside has begged prosecutors to drop the charges against him, according to US media reports. Dharmesh Patel,

The wife of a California doctor who drove her and his kids off a cliff in a failed murder-suicide bid has begged prosecutors to drop the charges.