POLICE seized a car in Selby.

Traffic Officer David Minto was among officers out in the town yesterday (April 14) looking for drivers committing road offences as part of an ongoing operation across North Yorkshire. 

Speaking on Twitter he said: "There’s a moral to this story. If your car is not insured, untaxed, has an expired MOT and you're disqualified from driving, then parking in the limits of the crossing was a poor decision when the traffic policeman is lurking nearby."

Earlier this year The Press reported that a driver who broke TC Minto's ankle was jailed for 30 months.

TC Minto was off work for months and on restricted duties when he did return to duty, York Crown Court heard.

Shane Anthony Povey, 38, who had been drinking, was angry police were trying to stop his nephew fighting another man, said Stephen Littlewood, prosecuting.

He pushed TC Minto over and as he fell the officer heard his ankle break, and lay in agony. He suffered a broken tibia and fibia and needed surgery twice.

Released on bail, Povey badgered a woman for hours with demands for money before going to her home with a knife. She refused to let him in.

“She was terrified and sat shaking on the sofa with her friend in her house in silence” while Povey slashed her mobility car’s tyres and damaged it and her front door, said Mr Littlewood.

Povey, of Dene Park, Harrogate, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to TC Minto, harassing the woman and carrying a knife outside her home.

“There has to be an immediate sentence of imprisonment,” said Judge Simon Hickey. “It was a serious assault on a public servant, who was simply carrying out his public duty. It has had an extreme ongoing effect upon him.”

He jailed Povey for 30 months and made a 10-year restraining order to protect the woman.