A ROMANIAN vlogger who burnt out his own car on a beach as a show of remorse to his wife for cheating has been fined €400 in Drogheda District Court.

Strugurel Lingurar, 30, plead guilty to the Section 2 Criminal Damage offence after he set his Mercedes alight on Laytown Beach in Meath on January 13th earlier this year.

The court heard how Lingurar was "happily married" but had an affair with another woman who he met regularly in the Silver Mercedes E220.

His defence barrister said he set the car alight as an "act of demonstration" to his wife to signify he and the other woman were no longer seeing eachother.

Ronan O'Carroll told the court that his client bought the car for €4,000 and that he and the woman "had a number of encounters in it".

"The act was a demonstration of remorse to his wife," he said adding that Mr Linguar did not try to claim for insurance on the car.

The vlogger, who has one previous conviction for theft in 2014, filmed the incident and uploaded it to his social media account where it was viewed thousands of times and reported in a number of media outlets including Dublin Live.

Investigating Garda Matthew McKenna said the incident came to his attention after a concerned member of the public saw the car driving on the beach before parking at the water's edge.

She then got curious after a man got out and started filming himself and reported it to gardai.

Garda McKenna said the witness was "sufficiently concerned" for the safety of those on the beach.

He also added that the car was left on the beach afterwards and the accused "didn't want anything to do with it".

One-hundred-and-sixty euro was paid to remove it.

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Judge Alan Mitchell called Mr. Lingurar "incredibly foolish" and described the case as "so bizarre and so far fetched it's not believable".

He said: "The idea of someone going down to a public place and burning a car on the basis of proving love all seems a bit strange".

After Mr Lingurar agreed to repay the removal costs the judge remarked that the accused's wife should also be "compensated for the embarrassment".

Mr. Lingurar's defence barrister replied saying his wife forgave him and they are now happily together.

Handing down the fine, Judge Mitchell said that although it wasn't Mr Lingurar's intention to endanger the public he had to make a provision as the "fuel tank could have exploded and onlookers could have ended up in a much more serious situation".