A person who stole a model new £40,000 Jaguar from an Inverness storage to get dwelling to Birmingham has been jailed for eight months.
Earlier than Naveed Nawaz, 26, drove away the luxurious car from the forecourt of Park’s of Hamilton’s showroom on Harbour Highway on October 8, he had twice crashed his personal automobile additional north.
At Inverness Sheriff Court docket, Sheriff Ian Cruickshank described first offender Nawaz as having dedicated “an astounding and unimaginable course of felony conduct in a matter of days”.
He added: “It appears a clumsy try to take a £40,000 automobile to get dwelling to Birmingham. And he has no clarification for why he was in Sutherland and Caithness, was he making an attempt to do the North Coast 500?”
The court docket was advised that the luxurious automobile had been left working within the storage forecourt to replace its navigation system. Nawaz leapt in and drove it off. He was caught by police a short while later close to the Moy wind farm.
Defence solicitor Neil Wilson stated Nawaz was then launched on an endeavor to seem at Inverness at a later date, and acquired on a practice to attempt to get dwelling – however he noticed police, “panicked and ran away”.
The court docket heard officers discovered him hiding in a carriage. He was launched once more.
Mr Wilson added: “He failed to show up twice at Inverness in November to reply the endeavor, a warrant was issued and he was arrested in Glasgow on December 7.”
Nawaz admitted theft of the Jaguar, failing to establish the motive force to police when he was intercepted at Moy and driving the unregistered marque with out insurance coverage.
He additionally admitted two costs of careless driving, failing to establish the motive force of the car concerned within the collisions and trespassing onto a railway line close to Inverness on October 9.
Fiscal depute Roderick Urquhart advised the court docket that on October 2, Nawaz drove at 90pmph on a single observe highway close to Colaball Farm, Lairg, misplaced management of his automobile and ended up in a ditch after driving.
Three days later, within the small rural hamlet of Haster on October 5, Nawaz drove at extreme pace, inflicting him to lose management popping out of a bend. He crashed into the conservatory of a home there.
Sheriff Cruickshank backdated the custodial sentence to December 8, and in addition banned him from driving for 16 months.
