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Ryhan Yakub, 21, pinched the Renault Clio after discovering its key on the bottom in or round Hedley Close, central South Shields, a court docket heard.
Yakub, having fun with freedom from jail on licence, misplaced management and overturned it in adjoining Mile End Road on Sunday, October 15.
It struck a parked Nissan Qashqai and a Seat Leon and Yakub, of Hyde Street, South Shields, suffered minor head and arm accidents – and fled.
But hours later he handed himself in to police and confessed to his crime, prosecutor Glenda Beck stated.
He is beginning 18 weeks behind bars after pleading responsible to a string of motoring offences on the borough’s magistrates’ court docket.
Mrs Beck stated the proprietor of the Renault discovered her automotive key lacking after being woken by police at 3am and knowledgeable of the accident.
She added: “At 6.10am, officers were called to the front desk at South Shields police station because the defendant was on the phone outside.
“He wanted to hand himself in for flipping a car. He said he had been intoxicated, and he didn’t know what had happened.
“He was cautioned and arrested and gave a statement that he had consumed alcohol.
“Breath test readings came back at 34mcg and 35mcg of alcohol, which are under the limit.
“He then refused a request to provide a sample of blood. He also said he had taken diazepam.
“He said he had found the key fob in the road and had been in the car alone when he flipped it.
“He confirmed he didn’t know the owner. He said his intention was to drive it around and return it to the place he had taken it.
“He had run away from the vehicle but had then returned because he had left his mobile inside.”
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Yakub pleaded responsible to taking a automobile with out consent, driving whereas banned and failing to offer a pattern for evaluation.
He additionally admitted failing to cease after an accident and driving with out insurance coverage.
It was stated he was jailed for 12 weeks on August 1 for offences of hazard driving, taking with out consent and drug driving, and freed on licence on September 12.
David Forrester, defending, stated: “I understand the offences and the situation he has placed himself in.
“The one thing that he gets credit for is that he did go to the police station, and he did pick up the phone outside at 6am and admit what he had done.”
Yakub was jailed for 18 weeks every for taking with out consent and driving whereas banned, and to eight weeks for failing to offer a pattern, to run concurrently.
He was banned from driving for 42 months, with no separate penalty for the remaining two prices.
Magistrates ordered him to pay compensation to the house owners of the automobiles he struck of £250 and £200, with a £154 sufferer surcharge.
