Cocaine driver from Alness found ‘shaking’ after a routine vehicle stop by police on Kessock Bridge near Inverness – he had 11 times the permitted level of the drug in his system
Police who carried out a routine stop of a vehicle on the Kessock Bridge found the driver was under the influence of cocaine.
Christopher Jaffray, of Milnafua, Alness, had 11 times the permitted level of cocaine in his system.
Blood analysis gave a reading of 114mcgs of the narcotic.
The legal limit is 10mcgs.
Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald expressed surprise at the high reading when Jaffray appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court this week and his solicitor advocate, Neil Wilson, accepted it was “significant.”
Fiscal depute Rowena Carlton said the 42-year-old driver was “shaking and his pupils were pin pricks” when police intercepted the vehicle on May 23 last year.
Mr Wilson said: “My client was going through a bad patch but is now clean.”
Jaffray was fined £420 and banned from driving for two years.