A DISPUTE over a Ferrari sports car which ended up in the Supreme Court has finally been resolved, with a businessman ordered to return it to its Central Coast owner.
The row started in February last year when Alan Redford, of Green Point, and Mitchell Slattery, 23, of Picketts Valley, who was in a de facto relationship with Mr Redford’s stepdaughter, decided to import a Ferrari from England.
According to court documents, Mr Redford paid $80,000 to import the Ferrari Modena for himself, as he believed it would sell in Australia for more than $180,000.
Mr Slattery arranged the purchase, but by June last year Mr Radford had not received his car.
Then Mr Redford saw Mr Slattery driving a red Ferrari. He eventually received the car, had it registered and left it in his driveway while he went to Sydney. However when he got home the car was missing.
On July 22, Mr Redford went to Mr Slattery’s house and saw the Ferrari parked in the driveway, with it later revealed in court that Mr Slattery had kept a set of keys to the car.
Acting Justice Brian Tamberlain said that under cross-examination Mr Slattery was shown to be “unreliable” and “argumentative in the extreme” while “much of his evidence was inconsistent and appeared to have been fabricated”.
Mr Slattery was ordered to hand over the Ferrari and to repay $60,000 and any money owing to Mr Redford’s wife and her company.
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