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		</div><p>Two friends are to be sentenced next month for lying about crashing a Lamborghini Gallardo into shops and causing more than £100k (€114k) of damage.</p>
<p>Talal Alkassab, 39, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice at London&#8217;s Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday. His friend, Diyaa Lababidi, 33, admitted the same offence in December last year.</p>
<p>They will both be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday, April 11.</p>
<p>The supercar hit several bollards before ploughing into shops in the heart of London&#8217;s high-end Mayfair retail district, just after midnight on 23 July 2015.</p>
<p>Scotland Yard said CCTV images show the car had been driven up Woodstock Street before accelerating and colliding with the glass and metal shop fronts at speed.</p>
<p>Two people then got out and the supercar remained at the scene until it was recovered about three hours later. No call was made to notify police of the crash.</p>
<p>Alkassab, who had hired the Lamborghini a day before, told police that an unknown customer at a nearby cafe where he worked had taken the keys without his knowledge and crashed the car while parking it.</p>
<p>The story fell apart after detectives uncovered text messages between Alkassab, of Holland Park Road, west London, and Lababidi, of Praed Street, Paddington.</p>
<p>It led Alkassab to eventually admit that his friend Lababidi had been driving, Scotland Yard said.</p>
<p>Lababidi had previously pleaded guilty, at London&#8217;s at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court in February 2016, to driving without due care and attention, failure to report a road traffic collision, having no insurance and driving a motor vehicle otherwise than in accordance with a licence.</p>
<p>He was given an eight-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months for failing to report the collision and was disqualified from driving for six months for driving without insurance.</p>
<p>His licence was also endorsed for driving without due care and attention and driving without a license.</p>
<p>He was ordered to pay £714.13 (€816.96) compensation to Westminster Council for damage to the bollards, plus £85 (€97.24) prosecution costs and an £80 (€91.52) victim surcharge.</p>
<p>Charges of attempted insurance fraud were left to lie on file for Alkassab.</p>
<p>After the latest hearing PC Colin Moore, of Westminster police, said: <i>&#8220;Alkassab and Lababidi were not only involved in a serious collision that caused thousands of pounds worth of damage but Alkassan then lied to police over a considerable period of time, protracting our enquiries and delaying the matter in coming to court.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am pleased they have finally been held accountable for their actions and, with summer approaching, I hope this case sends a message to those who drive such vehicles about the responsibilities that come with that and the efforts police will take to tackle their anti-social use.&#8221;</i></p>
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