Police seized a car belonging to a so-called ‘boy-racer’ over the weekend after the driver was found flouting previous warnings about reckless driving.

Officers from Abergavenny station snatched the Honda Civic after the driver had received a warning about his anti-social driving just one week earlier.

PC Adam Hollings took the vehicle off the road, leaving the driver car-less, after issuing a Section 59 order, allowing police to seize any vehicle which breaks the law within 12 months of the warning being handed out.

On Saturday evening, PC Hollings and his team found the vehicle in Fairfield Car Park and issued the order. The car was loaded onto a truck and impounded.

PC Hollings said, “We know that there is an issue of anti-social vehicle use in Fairfield Car Park.

“Hopefully this seizure will be a serious lesson to the driver involved and they will think twice about driving in that manner again.

“We are working hard to deal with the issues in Fairfield Car Park and have recently had a Public Spaces Protection Order granted through Monmouthshire County Council.

“We are just awaiting the signage being printed before this is introduced in the next couple of weeks.

“My message to anyone that drives, or is planning to drive in an anti-social manner is that everyone is watching you and we will deal with these reports robustly. The town is not a race track and we won’t tolerate such behaviour.

“I would also like to add that it is a small minority of the “car cruisers” that cause problems and the majority of them sit there quietly so we should be careful not to tar them all with the same brush.

“Hopefully the law-abiding drivers will work with us in the future to avoid future problems.”