A DRUG-driver was caught out while more than five times the limit on a Herefordshire road.

Alex Evans entered a guilty plea to one charge of drug-driving when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford.

Police were in Ross-on-Wye's Wilton Road when they spotted Evans behind the wheel of a blue Vauxhall Corsa and pulled him over for routine checks on July 16, prosecutor Mark Hambling said.

Evans was asked to take a roadside drug test and was arrested and taken into custody when it returned a positive result.

An evidential blood test revealed he had 11 microgrammes of controlled class B drug cannabis product delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol per litre of blood. The legal limit is two microgrammes.

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Marilena Di Vitantonio said the 21-year-old, who has no previous convictions, had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and had cooperated with police at the roadside at at the police station.

"Since then he has stopped smoking cannabis regularly," Miss Di Vitantonio said.

The court heard Evans is employed and is in his second week of a trial period.

Evans, who is of Mayhill Road, Ross-on-Wye, was disqualified from driving for 12 months and fined £295. He was also ordered to pay costs of £135 and a £118 victim surcharge.

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