A man with a long history of taking other people's cars stole his "umpteenth" vehicle and hours later slammed it into two parked cars and through a garden wall, a court has heard.
It was only a sturdy set of railings alongside a mobility ramp which stopped the car Ricky Davies was driving from colliding with a house. The driver - who has 98 previous offences on his record - ran off from the wreckage but was identified thanks to his blood and saliva left on the crashed vehicle's airbag.
The defendant's advocate told Swansea Crown Court that his client could not remember a time in the last 23 years when he wasn't either in prison, on licence following release from prison, or serving a community order.
