A former Miss Liverpool tried to claim a thief was behind the wheel of her Mercedes when it crashed into traffic lights causing thousands of pounds worth of damage, a court has heard.
She punched the air after she walked free from court today (July 12). Victoria McInerney, 38, crashed her Mercedes in the Wirral around 4am on January 21 this year telling a taxi driver afterwards: "My boyfriend is going to kill me. Look what I've done to the car."
The LiverpoolECHO reports that the sales director and pilates studio owner fled the scene of the crash before police and paramedics arrived. Later on that morning she called police to claim the company car had been taken during a burglary.
