A British driver was imprisoned after blowing up a speed camera - which turned out to be a fake.

Craig Moore, from Doncaster, thought he had been caught speeding after he was flashed by the camera in Hyde, Greater Manchester, last year.

Fearing he would lose his driving licence and his job, the father-of-one returned home to fetch some Thermite - an explosive mixture of powdered aluminium and iron oxide - and returned to blow up the device, causing £11,000 of damage.

Unbeknown to him the equipment was just a deterrent which cannot be used to prosecute motorists.

However, the device was fitted with CCTV which recorded the whole incident.

Moore was jailed for four months after he admitted destroying the equipment.