A MOTORIST faces a custodial sentence and lengthy ban after police caught a driver committing a flurry of offences in Wimborne. 

While on patrol Dorset Police No Excuse team stopped a motorist in a silver Toyota for being on his phone. 

The driver was stopped and was going to be issued with a traffic offence report for the offence of using a mobile phone whilst driving.

However when officers did their usual checks they discovered the driver was infact disqualified from driving for three years. 

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A spokesperson for the No Excuse team said: "Whilst he attempted to show us a photo of his licence on his phone a certain ‘aroma’ was detected together with the pictures of ‘spliffs’ on his phone lead us to conduct a drug wipe.

"You’ve guessed it, it came back positive for cannabis."

The car was seized and the driver was arrested for drug driving, disqualified driving, using a mobile phone and having no insurance.

He now awaits the results of the blood test and potentially a lengthy ban and also a custodial sentence.