'I’ll Just Learn In The Rolls-Royce’: What Billionaire Teen Told Cops Who Took His Maserati
Golden boy: Hamza with his Maserati
A brash ‘billionaire’ teenager says he will learn to drive in a Rolls-Royce after his £100,000 supercar was impounded by the police because he had no insurance.
Nineteen-year-old Hamza Sheikh shrugged off the loss of his gold-plated Maserati GranCabrio after he was pulled over by police when he was driving through Kingston with L plates last weekend.
The car was impounded and he could face six points on his provisional licence as well as a £300 fine.
But Sheikh, originally from Pakistan and who describes himself as a billionaire and his family’s golden child, said losing the car temporarily wasn’t a problem.
‘ I have a Rolls-Royce and a Range Rover,’ he told the Evening Standard.
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‘I am just waiting for my new gold Lamborghini to be delivered in the meantime. Since I was young I have been learning to drive in supercars — I’ve also learnt in a Porsche Panamera, so a Maserati is a piece of cake.
He added: ‘No Maserati, I’ll just learn to drive in a Rolls-Royce with insurance.
‘I was informed by my staff that the police were watching my car for more than an hour,’the Mayfair-based student told the Evening Standard.
‘I have security with me wherever I go and I’m very happy that I’ve got my car back, but I was not without a car — I drove my Rolls-Royce with my security.
‘I am the golden child of my family, that’s why my car is gold. I was just coming from completing my theory test when I was stopped.
Police pulled him over because they were surprised to see a learner in a Maserati (Twitter)
‘I have a busy lifestyle and running a property business while studying is not easy.
‘I missed a letter from my insurance company requesting key information which I was unaware of, so they were unable to effectively update their records. This was the reason for the error.’
Officers pulled him over because they were suspicious that a learner driver could afford such a car.
It is the second time, the learner driver has run into problems on the road.
In April, he received a parking ticket in Hyde Park