Officers in Swindon arrested a teenager caught riding a homemade e-bike while on drugs.

At around 11pm on Friday, Wiltshire Police shared two images on social media.

One showed a bicycle with electric components sellotaped to the body and pedals while the other included a drugs wipe with a positive result for cannabis.

A spokesperson who was at the scene in Redhouse described it as an "iffy combination" of "DIY e-bike plus cannabis".

A 17-year-old suspect was arrested and, the spokesperson added "fortunate not to be more seriously injured", suggesting that there had been some sort of accident involving the two-wheeler.

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