A young Londoner with a fanatical love of buses stole two double-deckers for middle-of-the-night joyrides, and even picked up passengers along the way.
Shakeil Austin, 20, who only had a provisional licence, crashed one of the 12-tonne vehicles into a white Mercedes but failed to stop - instead sneaking it back to its Edgware Road depot.
A month later, wearing an inspector’s hat and hi-vis jacket, he took another bus from the same spot, this time picking up two passengers on his ride.
He let one of them, a male friend of his, drive the bus 'about 15ft', Willesden Green magistrates court heard.