AN AUDI driver caught out while more than three times the drug limit has been banned from the roads.
Joel Hunt entered a guilty plea to one count of driving while over the drug limit when he appeared before magistrates in January.
The court heard from prosecutor Sarah Hurd that the 34-year-old had been caught out on the A465 Aylestone Hill in Hereford after getting behind the wheel of an Audi A5 while over the drug-driving limit on April 16.
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An evidential blood test revealed that he had 6.8 microgrammes of controlled class B drug cannabis product delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol per litre of blood, more than three times the legal limit of two microgrammes.
Hunt, of Astwood Lane in Wychbold, Droitwich, was fined £525 and disqualified from driving for 12 months for the offence, with magistrates in Hereford saying that they had taken his guilty plea into account when imposing the penalty.
He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £135 and a £210 victim surcharge, which is used to help fund services supporting victims of crime.
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