Video: The moment a motorist blew up a speed camera

Video: The moment a motorist blew up a speed camera

Last updated at 12:14pm on 7th September 2006 Reader comments (15)

Craig Moore was jailed for four months

A man who blew up a roadside camera to destroy evidence of his speeding was today jailed for four months.

Railway worker Craig Moore, 28, from Doncaster, used an explosive substance taken from his work welding railway lines to destroy the camera, Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

The explosion caused £11,700 damage to the camera, which had flashed him exceeding the speed limit in the Hyde area of the city last August.

But Moore's plan backfired because photographs of his speeding and footage of him returning to sabotage the camera were stored in recording equipment in its base, which escaped damage.

Moore admitted a charge of damaging property at a hearing last month.

The Vital Rail employee, who was in a work vehicle with a colleague when he was flashed, feared losing his job and being unable to support his family if he was caught speeding, his defence claimed today.