‘I’ve just stolen a car and I’m taking it for a joyride!’: Car thief is convicted after dashcam records him ringing a friend to boast about his crime before he crashes into a wall
- Kevin Moss, 28, called a friend to say that he has just stolen a car in Woking
- Details of Moss’ call were recorded on dash cam where he admitted theft
- At one stage Moss told his friend: ‘I’m in trouble mate… I’ve just stolen a car’
A hapless joyrider who recorded himself boasting about his crime on the stolen car’s dashcam moments before he crashed into a wall was spared jail.
Kevin Moss, 28, calls his friend to say ‘I’m in trouble mate’ and then admits: ‘I’ve just stolen a car and I’m taking it for a joyride boy.’
Moss then smashes the vehicle into a wall on Constitution Hill in Woking, just minutes after he drove it away last June 26.
The thief was nowhere to be found, but police downloaded the car’s dashcam footage and Moss’s DNA was found on the steering wheel.
Kevin Moss, 28, from Guildford, Surrey called his friend to say ‘I’m in trouble mate’ and then admits: ‘I’ve just stolen a car and I’m taking it for a joyride boy’
Moss was unaware his voice was being recorded on the car’s dashcam system
The dashcam captures the sound of screeching brakes before he smashed into the wall, after reaching speeds of 50mph on a 30mph residential road
In the dashcam footage Moss calls his friend who replies: ‘Whoah, huh? I can’t hear you mush.’
Moss explains: ‘I’m going to Guildford…his keys were left in it.’
He then says: ‘Hey. Hey! I stole his car, I’m driving it.’
The dashcam captures the sound of screeching brakes before he smashed into the wall, after reaching speeds of 50mph on a 30mph residential road.
Moss from Guildford, admitted burglary and aggravated vehicle taking at Guildford Crown Court.
He was sentenced to one year imprisonment, suspended for two years and ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid community work.
Moss was also ordered to pay £1,000 in compensation to the victim.
Temporary Sergeant Christopher North said: ‘Not only did Moss burgle a home and take someone else’s property for his own enjoyment, he also went on to endanger the public by driving recklessly and carelessly through residential roads.
‘I hope that this investigation shows that we will not tolerate this kind of senseless behaviour in Surrey.’
He was sentenced to one year imprisonment, suspended for two years and ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid community work. He was also ordered to pay his victim £1,000 in compensation
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