Party guest took director's £110k Porsche and smashed it into tree
A company director is more than £100,000 out of pocket after a man he had invited back to his home made off in his Porsche and smashed it into a tree.
Rory Shellard then drove it to a coach firm where he dumped it, abandoning his injured passenger.
And jailing Shellard for 10 months, a judge at Warwick Crown Court said that was 'a serious aggravating feature'.
Shellard, aged 25, of Horace Street, Bilston, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicle taking resulting in damage and was also banned from driving for three years and five months.
Prosecutor Miss Amy Jackson said that businessman Jody Sanders had bought a Porsche 911 for £110,000 in February last year. After attending a 'black tie' event on May 1, he invited some fellow guests back to his home in Henley-in-Arden.
"Then at two in the morning Mr Sanders had a call from his insurance company indicating that they had information that the airbags in the car had been deployed," she said.
Meanwhile, police were called to the scene of the crash in Camp Lane, Henley-in-Arden, at 2.50 that morning.
Shellard was identified from DNA found on the driver's airbag.
Miss Jackson that Mr Sanders' insurance company had paid out just £8,500 for the written-off super-car – because of his failure to disclose information about points on his licence.
The court head that Shellard had a conviction for driving with excess alcohol and possessing cocaine in 2014, and had only got his licence back six months earlier.
