A DRUG-DRIVER was caught taking a friend's car to the petrol station in the early hours of the morning.

Carla Jayne Dayas admitted drug-driving when she appeared before magistrates in Hereford.

Dayas had been pulled over by police at 1.51am on April 2 after she was seen committing a moving traffic offence on the A44 at Lyonshall, prosecutor Ralph Robyns Landricombe said.

She was asked to take a roadside drug test and arrested after it returned a positive result for cocaine. An evidential blood test revealed she had 106 microgrammes of cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine per litre of blood. The legal limit is 50.

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Philip Cornell, for Dayas, said the 26-year-old was a responsible former carer who had given up her job to look after her grandfather.

"At the time she drove she was not insured," he said.

"She had been visiting a friend and he was the worse for drink and wanted her to fill his car up as he needed it to go to work the next day.

"She is not a drug addict and is not working at the moment but wants to get back into care."

Dayas, of Newtown, Powys, was disqualified from driving for 12 months and fined £120. She must also pay costs of £135 and a £34 victim surcharge.