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“I’m sure I parked it here,” ponders property tycoon

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.

Guildford Crown Court heard the two men reported it to police as stolen, and put in an insurance claim.

But they were subsequently charged with conspiring to commit fraud between Dec, 2008, and March 5 last year.

However, after a six day trial, the jury accepted the men’s version of events and acquitted them.

The jury heard that it was not the first expensive car Mr Knowles had lost in similar drunken circumstances.

After a previous night of heavy drinking, Mr Knowles, who earns £160,000 a year from his property portfolio, couldn’t find his Mercedes. It was only after an extensive search that it was found parked behind a nightclub.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .