INVERNESS SHERIFF COURT: Cocaine driver on banned for nearly two years
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A cocaine fuelled driver from Inverness has been banned from the roads for 22 months and fined £400.
Gerard Allan (55) pleaded guilty to the offence which occurred when police saw him and two others in his car in Benula Road in the early hours of May 3 last year.
His reading was 544mcgs of a cocaine metabolyte in his blood when the legal limit is 50mcgs.
Fiscal depute Emma MacEwan told Inverness Sheriff Court that none of those in the car could explain why they were there.
The court heard that none of them, including Allan , of Anderson Court, lived nearby.
Defence solicitor Mhyrin Hill said: “He had cocaine some hours earlier at a party and misjudged when it was safe to drive.”
Defence solicitor Graham Mann said his client no longer participated in recreational drug use.
During sentencing Sheriff Robert Frazer described it as an “exceptionally” high reading before imposing the fine and ban.