A posh ex-Marlborough College old boy went on a late-night wrecking spree after drinking with two pals, causing over £3,000 worth of damage to a Piaggio scooter and Audi car.
Landscape designer Ruaraidh Sebastian Neville-Clarke, 27, (pictured) was warned to curb his alcohol intake, which fuels his "over the top" behaviour.
He was raised on a large estate in Shermanbury, Horsham, West Sussex, has a previous conviction for drink-driving and like the Duchess of Cambridge is an Old Marlburian, having attended the £30,000 a year Wiltshire public school.
Neville-Clarke - known as Rory to friends - of St. Stephen's Mews, Bayswater pleaded guilty at Hammersmith Magistrates' Court to causing £546 worth of criminal damage to the scooter and £2,493 to the Audi S5, belonging to James Lumsden, in Epple Road, Fulham on November 26, last year.
He also pleaded guilty to possessing two wraps of cocaine at his address when police eventually tracked him down and arrested him on January 18.
Neville-Clarke was placed on a twelve-month community order, which includes 120 hours of unpaid work, and was ordered to pay £100 compensation to the victim, £85 costs and a £60 victim surcharge.
Prosecutor Miss Rav Chodha told the court: "Mr. Lumsden and his wife were at home and they heard a loud banging outside and saw three males.
"One of them had picked-up Mr. Lumsden's Piaggio scooter, which had been knocked over, and pushed it over a second time."
Mr. Lumsden shouted out of his window and went outside, where the other two men, Christopher and Oliver Maitland-Walker, identified themselves along with the defendant and left the scene.
"He noticed that as well as damage to the scooter there was damage to his black Audi, where the scooter had fallen against it," explained Miss Chodha.
Mr. Lumsden called the police, who drove him around the neighbourhood in an attempt to identify and catch the culprits, and they spoke to the defendant's friend Christopher when they returned to the victim's house.
"He said that Mr. Neville-Clarke was responsible and when officers visited the defendant's address they found the two wraps of cocaine that he said was for his own use."
He told the court: "I do not disagree with what has been said. It was not out of malice, it was all idiotic behaviour that went wrong.
"We were behaving badly and mucking about. I had been drinking."
Bench Chairwoman Deborah Tully told Neville-Clarke: "You seem to go OTT when you have had a few, although you do not have a drink or drug problem.
"Stay away from too much drink in the future."
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