A dangerous driver took his pal’s Audi Q3 then crashed into the side of a house – after speeding off when cops spotted him at a McDonald’s burger joint opposite Abingdon police station.

Dean McAllister, 28, was said to have been given permission to sleep in the 2017-plate Audi on February 22 last year.

Abusing his pal’s kindness, he decided to drive away in the expensive German motor, then used a bank card he found in the car to buy £102-worth of fuel and ‘snacks’.

Meanwhile, police were notified the Audi had been taken without the owner’s consent.

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Defending, Gareth James told Oxford Crown Court on Wednesday (June 14): “He then drives to a local McDonalds restaurant, which happens to be directly across the road from the police station, where the police who have been alerted to this vehicle are looking for him.

"They see him and he drives off.”

He made off in the car then crashed into a property in Bath Street, causing £100,000-worth of damage to the house.

McAllister, of Northcourt Walk, Abingdon, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, aggravated vehicle taking, fraudulently using the bank card at a BP garage and possession of an imitation firearm – an AirSoft pistol – in Wootton Road.

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The judge, Recorder John Bate-Williams, agreed to adjourn the case for the probation service to compile a pre-sentence report.

But he warned him: “I make no promises to you regarding sentence in this case.

“The important point for you to take on board there is in my judgment a real risk, indeed a likelihood, of a prison sentence being passed.

“I don’t want you to think as a consequence of the adjourning for a pre-sentence report that is no longer an option.

“I would have thought it would be uppermost in the court’s mind when you are sentenced.”

He was bailed to return to court on July 14, when he will be sentenced.