Lamborghini vandal caught via Bluetooth

A drunken vandal who did £20,000 of damage to a 217mph sports car was caught after a video of the incident was inadvertently sent to an employee of the car owner.

Egged on by friends, 23-year-old Frankie Hulme ran over the bonnet and roof of businessman Neil Greentree's £100,000 Lamborghini Murcielago in a pub car park in Dereham, Norfolk.

Mr Greentree, 38, did not realise until he parked his car in his garage at home that he had dents in the two-year-old car's aluminium roof.



But four days after the incident last June, a group of Hulme's friends began distributing a video clip of the drunken prank, which they had recorded on their mobile phones.

The group sent out the clip on Bluetooth, which allows video clips and pictures to be picked up by other mobile phones within the immediate vicinity. Unluckily for them, one of the people who was sitting near them as they sent it out from another pub in Dereham was Matt Drake, 26, one of Mr Greentree's salesmen.

He immediately recognised the car being damaged as his boss's pride and joy. He forwarded the clip to Norfolk police, who identified the man as Hulme. He was also placed under an 8pm-6am curfew at weekends and ordered to pay Mr Greentree £1,000 compensation.