Inverness drug-driver had more than 7 times legal limit of cocaine in her system
Published: 13:00, 24 December 2024
| Updated: 09:20, 28 December 2024
Police on mobile patrol decided to stop a car being driven by an Inverness woman because she was known to be involved in drugs.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard that when officers pulled over 38-year-old Ashley Kerr, of Aird Road, Inverness just after midnight on January 23 last year in Dores Road, a drug swipe proved positive for cocaine.
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She pleaded guilty to drug-driving with a reading of 375mcgs of the drug in her system when the legal driving limit is 50mcgs.
Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald was told it was her second similar offence.
Defending, Natalie Paterson said: "When this occurred, it was during a difficult time in her life."
Kerr was fined £470 and banned from driving for three years.
