A CAR has been seized by police officers after a driver decided to get behind the wheel despite being banned from doing so.

Essex Police’s local policing team and roads policing unit in Colchester were alerted to a motorist who was planning to drive home.

The individual, however, had not long appeared in court where he is said to have been disqualified from driving.

Upon arrival at the scene officers spotted a vehicle which was just about to pull away.

They arrested a man on suspicion of driving while disqualified and driving without insurance and a vehicle was seized.