Magistrates have banned a motorist for almost two years after he was caught behind the wheel while high on cannabis and cocaine.

Reece Griffiths, of King Georges Avenue in Watford, appeared at Bromley Magistrates' Court yesterday (September 24) charged with two counts of driving while over the legal limit on a controlled drug and possession of a class B drug, namely cannabis.

The 31-year-old admitted being high on cannabis and cocaine while driving a silver Volkswagen Golf in Malcolm Road, South London, on March 23 as well as the possession charge.

Drug tests found he had 2.3ug of THC per litre of blood, above the legal limit of 2ug, while the proportion of cocaine in his blood was also over the specified limit. 

Magistrates disqualified Griffiths from driving for 20 months and ordered him to pay £336, including £240 in fines.

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In a separate case, Watford resident Marc Alejandro Perez De Mel was also banned from driving for six months at Willesden Magistrates' Court on Monday (September 23).

The 34-year-old, of The Meadows, had admitted possession of cannabis and failing to give a specimen for analysis in Barnet on July 26.

As well as the banning order, the magistrate ordered him to pay a total of £940, including a £207 fine, while the cannabis was seized and destroyed.