Worksop drug-driver was ten times over the legal limit for cocaine by-product

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A Worksop drug-driver was stopped with ten times the legal limit for a cocaine by-product in his bloodstream after racking up two driving convictions within six months, a court has heard.

Corey-Dean Warren's Ford Transit was stopped on Featherstone Avenue, at 9.50am, on November 22, last year, said prosecutor Daniel Pietryka.

A blood test revealed he has 506 microgrammes of benzoylecgonine when the legal limit is 50 microgrammes.

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Magistrates heard he has two previous convictions for driving offences from December 5 and March 7, but the current offence pre-dates them.

Mansfield Magistrates Court.Mansfield Magistrates Court.
Mansfield Magistrates Court.

The court heard that had these offences been dealt with in the correct order they would have triggered an automatic three-year ban.

Warren, who represented himself, received credit for his early guilty plea but had nothing to say to magistrates.

Warren, 22, of Lincoln View, admitted drug-driving when he appeared at Mansfield Magistrates Court, on Tuesday.

He received a three-year ban. He was fined £120 and ordered to pay a £48 surcharge and £85 costs.