A DRUG-driver was twice caught driving in Herefordshire with a cocktail of drugs in his system.

Richard Jeffrey May entered a guilty plea when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford on October 21.

The court heard May had been caught driving a Volkswagen Scirocco on the A49 at Callow in Herefordshire on January 1.

An evidential test revealed he had more than 800 microgrammes of cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine, 12 microgrammes of cocaine, 2.2 microgrammes of cannabis metabolite delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, and more than 75 microgrammes of MDMA per litre of blood. The respective legal limits are 50, 10, two, and ten microgrammes per litre.

The 30-year-old was again caught behind the wheel while over the limit on May 5, this time on Holme Lacy road in Hereford.

A blood test showed he had 800 microgrammes of benzoylecgonine, 65 microgrammes of cocaine and 5.6 microgrammes of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol per litre of blood.

May, of Ashperton, Ledbury, was disqualified from driving for 42 months. He was also handed a six-month community order, must complete a six-month drug-dependency treatment programme, and was fined £600.

He must pay costs of £270 and a £95 victim surcharge.