Airdrie Sheriff Court heard that Declan Lyons was found lying beside the car which was on its roof on a grass verge at the roadside.
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Lyons didn't get very far, the court was told. A witness heard a loud bang in the town's Forest Road shortly before 5am and saw the overturned car. Lyons, of Roseburn Court, Cumbernauld, admitted previous convictions but his agent claimed he had been doing "so well" until a relapse into offending recently."He was under the influence of drugs when he committed these crimes.
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