A KNIFE-carrying drug-driver has been handed a community order after sexually touching a woman without her consent.
Casey Alan Edwards pleaded guilty to drug-driving, driving without a licence or insurance, and carrying a knife when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford on April 9.
The court heard Edwards had been caught carrying a lock knife in Leominster's Holland Road when stopped driving while over the drug limit, without insurance, and without a licence on February 14 last year.
An evidential blood test revealed Edwards had 44 microgrammes of cocaine and 529 microgrammes of cocaine metabolite per litre of blood while behind the wheel. The legal limits are 10 and 50.
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The 29-year-old was also sentenced for a separate offence on the same day, after being found guilty at an earlier trial of sexually touching a woman aged 16 or over without consent in Bromyard on May 24.
Edwards, of York Road, Bromyard, was disqualified from driving for 12 months, handed a three-year community order, and must sign the sex offenders' register for five years. He also received a one-year restraining order banning him from contacting his victim, and must pay compensation of £100, costs of £735, and a £90 victim surcharge.
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