Man stole £40,000 Jag to drive home to Birmingham
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A MAN who stole a new £40,000 Jaguar from an Inverness dealership to get home to Birmingham has been jailed.
Naveed Nawaz was imprisoned for eight months earlier today at the city’s Sheriff Court.
The 26-year-old had already incurred a 16-month driving ban when he appeared at the same court the previous week.
Nawaz drove away from Park’s of Hamilton’s showroom on Harbour Road on October 8 after spying the vehicle with its engine left running on the forecourt.
He was later arrested near Moy.
The court heard that only days before the Inverness theft, Nawaz had twice crashed his own 11-year-old car.
The first time he careered into a ditch in Sutherland.
Following that he then left the road and collided with the conservatory of a house in Caithness.
Defence solicitor Neil Wilson said that his client was completely without money when arrested.
Nawaz also admitted driving the Jag without insurance and twice driving his own car carelessly.
Sentencing Nawaz to jail, Sheriff Ian Cruickshank stated that Nawaz had committed "an astounding and incredible course of criminal conduct in a matter of days".
