A TENBY man was found to have been drug driving near Neyland last October has been banned from driving for three years.

John Timmis, 36 of The Glebe, had been driving a Vauxhall Tigra on the A477 through Honeyborough on October 30, 2022.

When tested by police, he recorded having 20 micrograms of cocaine per litre (µg/L) of blood – where the legal limit to exclude accidental exposure is 10µg/L – as well as 591µg/L of benzoylecgonine – the main metabolite of cocaine. The limit for that is 50µg/L.

He pleaded not guilty at Llanelli Magistrates’ Court to two charges of drug driving, but was found guilty of them both on August 24.

Timmis was fined £180 and was banned from driving for three years. He was also ordered to pay £620 in costs and a £72 surcharge.

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