Millionaire ‘loses’ Lamborghini after drunk night out

Apparently this 35 year old property tycoon went out with his buddy, got totally wasted, and couldn’t find his Lamborghini anymore. He reported it as stolen, but after a while it turned out the car was still parked at the place where he left it. Both he and his buddy were promptly charged with conspiring to commit fraud.

How drunk must he have been? And why didn’t they use the car’s tracking device? Oh well, read the story and share your opinion.

From Daily Telegraph:

A property tycoon lost his £130,000 Lamborghini sports car because he was too drunk to remember where he had parked it, a court heard.

Glenn Knowles, 35, and the co-owner of the car, Richard Mant, 39, were accused of trying to swindle an insurance company over the disappearance of the vehicle, which has never been traced.

But the jury accepted Mr Knowles’s claim that he had no idea what happened to the car after his drunken night out.
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The court heard that Mr Mant parked the Lamborghini outside his home in Epsom, Surrey, at about 2pm on Dec 17, 2008. In the morning he realised it was missing and his neighbour informed him he had seen the car being driven away the day before.

Mr Mant, who owns MSJ Joinery and The London Staircase Company, called Mr Knowles, who claimed he had no knowledge of the car’s whereabouts. When the car was tracked on automatic number plate recognition systems it was being driven towards Gillingham, Kent.

Mr Knowles told the court he had gone into Mr Mant’s home and taken the keys before driving to Gillingham where he had seen his parents in the pub. He said he might have driven the car whilst drunk to Rochester, where he continued drinking. But he did not think he would have taken it to Maidstone where his drunken evening ended. He said that before taking a taxi to his home, he had been unable to find the car. He dropped the keys at Mr Mant’s house and didn’t tell anyone what he had done, he told the jury.

Mr Mant, a father of three, who started his first business when he was 20, said he had not been hit by the recession and he could afford the £500 a month repayments on the car. He said he was not aware of the alleged deception until he was interviewed by police.