An Auckland man who was high on drugs when he crashed into and seriously injured a foreign diplomat is wanted by the police after allegedly being caught behind the wheel again, just weeks after being banned from driving.
Aaed Abu Laila, 27, failed to appear in the Auckland District Court this morning after being charged with driving while disqualified and allegedly providing police with false or misleading information after being stopped by an officer.
The court issued a warrant for his arrest.
Last month, Laila was suspended from driving after being sentenced for operating a vehicle carelessly which seriously injured Juan Carlos Cadena Silva, the former consul general at the Colombian Consulate in Auckland.
The Tamaki Drive rush hour crash last January saw the foreign diplomat thrown from his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. He required surgery at Auckland City Hospital and broke his right ankle, left wrist and suffered fractures to his pelvis.