Trowbridge grandfather Mohammed Bellazrak, 72, spent three nights on the motorway after getting lost travelling home from Gatwick.

Mr Bellazrak had to be rescued from the motorway on Christmas Day by police after dropping his wife off at the airport.

He had set off from home to drive to Heathrow, but due to the snow, Mrs Bellazrak's flight to visit family in Morocco was diverted to Gatwick.

He left Gatwick at around 8pm to travel home, but never completed the journey, with family members reporting him missing when he failed to arrive.

Mr Bellazrak had taken cold weather supplies with him, but had not packed diabetes medicine or his mobile phone.

CCTV footage found by Wiltshire Police showed him leaving the airport, with number plate recognition systems showing him driving around towns in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

He had been up and down to London three times, sleeping in his car on each night.

Mr Bellazrak said he had asked for help when he went to buy coffee, but people did not understand his question, and so he kept returning to drive on the motorway.

Mr Bellazrak said: "When I got home I was so glad, I was so happy and I was glad to be alive.

"When I go to pick up my wife when she flies back to the UK, one of my sons is going to come with me to navigate. I will never go out without my mobile phone again. I blame my satnav for what happened."