Abdulla Abdulkarim Ismail Alfahim drove while six times drink-drive limit
27-year-old drove £260,000 Lamborghini Aventador while under influence
Pulled over by police in central London for wheel-spinning and speeding
Banned from road for two years and forced to pay £1,060 in fines and costs
A boy racer who showed off in his high-powered Lamborghini while more than twice the drink-drive limit has been banned from the road and told he is not even fit to drive a motorised lawnmower.
Abdulla Abdulkarim Ismail Alfahim, 27, admitted downing six drinks at the Park Lane Hilton Hotel in central London before driving his girlfriend home - a journey of less than five minutes.
He was pulled over on Sloane Street in the early hours of July 27 when police officers saw him wheel-spinning and speeding between traffic lights in his £260,000 Aventador.
A roadside breath test revealed he had 96 microgrammes of alcohol to 100 millilitres of blood – considerably more than the legal limit of 35 microgrammes.
Alfahim, who claims to be a 'wealth manager' in his native Dubai, still lives with his parents who pay all of his bills.
He pleaded guilty to one count of drink-driving at Hammersmith Magistrates' Court today.
Banning him from the roads for two years, chairman of the bench Simon Elia said: 'You must not in any way, shape or form drive any kind of motor vehicle - even if it's a motorised lawnmower - on any public road.
'If you do then you will be brought back to court and the ban will be considerably longer and you could also be sent to prison.'
The court heard how Alfahim was visiting friends and family in the UK when the incident occurred.
Prosecutor Caroline Mungal said: 'On July 27, at about 2.20am, officers on patrol in Sloane Street saw a Lamborghini vehicle.
'The vehicle was accelerating heavily, the noise was excessive and dust could be seen coming from the tyres. That was the reason for the stop.'
Emily Lauchlan, for Alfahim, said: 'He says he wasn't accelerating the vehicle, he denies that element of the offence and states that as it was a Lamborghini it was loud in nature.
'The journey from the hotel to his address is approximately five minutes and he was stopped on his way there.
'It was 2am in the morning and the roads were empty, he was with his girlfriend, he believes he had six drinks over the course of the evening but he had a meal with that.
Abdulla Abdulkarim Ismail Alfahim, 27, (pictured outside court today) has been banned from driving for two years after he downed six drinks before driving his £260,000 Lamborghini in central London
'He lives in Dubai with his mother, father and brothers and his outgoing and expenses in Dubai are paid by his mother and father because he still lives in the family home.'
She added that Alfahim has no previous convictions or driving matters recorded against him in the UK or in Dubai.
Ordering Alfahim to pay a total of £1,060 in fines and court costs, Mr Elia said: 'Be under no illusions, it may have just been a five minute journey for you but this is a very, very serious offence.
'The level of alcohol in your breath makes it so serious that normally we would be dealing with this by way of a community order.
'However, bearing in mind that you normally live in Dubai and you travel backwards and forwards, we've decided to deal with this by way of a fine.'
Alfahim told the court he could pay the full £1,060 today, which included a £750 fine.
Alfahim was pulled over after wheel-spinning and speeding in his £260,000 Lamborghini Aventador in Sloane Street, central London, in the early hours of July 27. The high-powered supercar is pictured in Sloane Street
Alfahim pleaded guilty to one count of drink-driving at Hammersmith Magistrates' Court (pictured left outside court, and right) and was told he must not get behind the wheel of any vehicle, including a 'motorised mower'
Alfahim is just one of a number of boy racers who descend on London every summer with their expensive Arab-owned supercars.
The arrival of the Lamborghinis, Rolls Royces and Ferraris has become an annual event in the capital as rich Qataris, Saudis, Emiratis and Kuwaitis move to Britain following the end of Ramadan to escape the baking midsummer months.
The young men flaunt their souped-up vehicles around the capital, parking them outside luxury shops, five-star hotels and other exclusive streets around the Knightsbridge area.
Kensington and Chelsea Council has recently announced a crackdown on the well-heeled boy racers, with plans to bring in a new law which will make it a criminal offence to accelerate rapidly, rev an engine or blast loud music.
Announcing plans last month to bring in a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) for large parts of the area around exclusive department store Harrods, council leader Nick Paget-Brown said: 'It has been a big problem for some years now.
‘The area has become a destination for boy-racers from the Gulf States and their super cars make an enormous amount of noise.
'They rev their cars and they can be heard right across the neighbourhood. We wanted to find some way of tackling this and the best way forward is the PSPO.
‘Residents have had to put up with too much for too long.'
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