Drug-driver more than 40 times over limit is disqualified

A building labourer, who was found to be more than 40 times the drug-driving limit when pulled over by police, has been disqualified from driving for four years.

Christopher Laver, 29, was one of 150 motorists arrested during Surrey and Sussex Police’s month long crackdown on drink and drug-drivers in June. A total of 91 of the offenders have been convicted so far.  Laver was pulled over by officers in Brighton Road, Lancing, at about 2am on 17 June due to his erratic driving, police said.

Following a roadside drug test, he was arrested and charged with driving with 40mcg of cocaine, 800mcg of benzoylecgonine – the main metabolite of cocaine – and 417mcg of ecstasy per litre of blood in his system, according to police.

At Worthing Magistrates’ Court on 3 October, the 29-year-old building labourer, of Dellfield Close, Portsmouth, Hampshire, was disqualified from driving for 48 months.

He was also ordered to pay £85 costs and a £85 victim surcharge.

Among the other offenders was Jacek Musial, 41, unemployed, of Joyce Close, Wick. He was arrested in Grevats Lane, Climping, on 23 June and charged with driving with 111mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath in his system, more than three times the limit.

At Worthing Magistrates’ Court on 22 August, he was disqualified from driving for 24 months and given a 16-week community order. He was also ordered to pay £85 costs and a £85 victim surcharge.