A motorist left his car in a Bankfoot garden following a Christmas Day crash.
Rafal Owczerac skidded while driving to visit relatives but walked away from the scene following the crash. He later told police that his Honda Civic had been stolen.
Fiscal depute Rebecca Kynaston said local residents heard a bang shortly before 7pm on Christmas Day.
She said: “They looked out their window and noticed a Honda Civic had crashed into the wall and garden of number 15. They saw the accused standing next to the car with two other males on the other side of it.
“They were seen to walk away .”
She added that Owczerac had lost control after driving too quickly on icy roads and had thought that he needed to press the accelerator in order to control the skid.
Solicitor John McLaughlin, said Owczerac was self-employed as a landscaper and required his licence so he could drive between jobs.
The 32-year-old admitted driving without due care and attention on Bankfoot’s Nicoll Drive and Prieston Road by hitting the kerb and mounting a grass verge, losing control, continuing to drive with a damaged wheel before colliding with another car, a garden wall and gate.
He further admitted that on December 26 at an address on Nicoll drive, he failed to report the incident to police within 24 hours and that one the same day he falsely told two police officers that his Honda Civic had been stolen.
Owczerac, of Bracknell, Berkshire, was banned from the roads for four months and fined £800.
