Drunk driver smashes Porsche in £200k wrecking spree after picking son up from pub brawl
dailyrecord.co.ukA garage manager has been banned from driving after drunkenly crashing into five cars as he tried to take his brawling son home from the pub.Leslie Amos damaged cars worth around £200,000 - including a Porsche 911 Black Edition - during the hapless bid to take his son Ryan Amos home.The Peter Vardy body shop repair manager was disqualified from driving for 28 months and ordered to carry out 160 hours unpaid work on Monday.Amos, 49, left a trail of destruction before launching a tirade of bigoted abuse - while his son Ryan attacked two concerned passers-by in the street.Dundee Sheriff Court was told that a total of six cars - including the repair boss's own VW Tiguan - were damaged during the incident on August 7, 2021.Fiscal depute Lee Corr told the court that Ryan Amos had been involved in a fracas at the Stag Inn in Falkland, Fife, and had been told to leave the pub.Mr Corr said: "They were out drinking.
They are father and son. They left and Leslie Amos got into the driver's seat of a VW Tiguan."Whilst driving, the accused's vehicle collided with a parked vehicle, which was a black Porsche, causing damage to the nearside bumper, wing and wheel."The VW made its way to Main Street, Dunshalt and collided with a parked Kia Sportage, causing denting and scraping along the nearside."A short distance later the Tiguan collided with the nearside of a parked VW Polo, causing extensive damage.
The Polo was pushed into a parked Honda Civic, causing extensive damage to the front bumper and bonnet."This caused a further collision with another vehicle - a Lexus - causing damage to that.
The accused's vehicle came to a stop in the middle of Main Street."Mr Corr said a number of residents had come out of their homes to investigate
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