A DRIVER caught out in Hereford while more than four times the limit has been banned from the roads.
Stuart Dean entered a guilty plea to one count of driving while over the drug limit when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford in March.
The court heard from prosecutor Lauren Millichip that the 51-year-old had been caught out in Hereford's Holme Lacy Road after getting behind the wheel of a Skoda Fabia while over the drug-driving limit on November 15.
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An evidential blood test revealed that Dean, who was represented at the hearing by defence solicitor Andrew Cleal, had nine microgrammes of controlled class B drug cannabis product delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol per litre of blood, more than four times the legal limit of two microgrammes.
Dean, of Standale Road, Hereford, was disqualified from driving for 12 months and fined £200 for the offence, with magistrates saying that they had taken his guilty plea into account when imposing the penalty.
He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £85 and a £53 victim surcharge.
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