Published date: 04 January 2017 |
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A DRIVER found to be 40 times the drug drive limit was jailed yesterday afternoon.
A district judge told defendant Daniel John Morini, 34, that drug driving was just as socially unacceptable as drink driving.
Morini, at the time of Casita Bella at Rhewl near Mostyn, admitted driving a Vauxhall Astra at The Nant, Mostyn, on October 19 when he had 152 microgrammes of cocaine in his blood compared to the legal limit of ten.
But the level of Benzoylegonine, a metabolite of cocaine, was 2,208 mirogrammes compared to the legal limit of 50.
At Flintshire magistrates’ court at Mold he was jailed for 90 days and banned from driving for two years.
District Judge Gwyn Jones told him that drug driving was just as socially unacceptable as drink driving.
“Many people still feel it is acceptable. Let me make it quite clear that it is not,” he said.
The amount of controlled drugs in his blood was high - one drug was 40 times the limit.
When he saw a police officer waiting for him he continued to drive without stopping for some 100 metres.
His previous convictions showed that he had a tendency to use illicit substances.
The case was so serious that only an immediate sentence of custody could be justified, he said.
Prosecutor Rhian Jackson said that the defendant was stopped by police who wanted to speak to him following a complaint from his brother.
She said that he had provided his brother’s details when stopped by the police previously.
Fiona Larkin, defending, said that the defendant had in view of the offences been evicted by his mother and he now lived in a flat in Hamilton Square, Birkenhead.
There had been massive fallout within the family after it emerged what the defendant had done.
The defendant was a self employed window cleaner whose partner was pregnant.
He was very embarrassed and regretful because of what he had done, she said.
A district judge told defendant Daniel John Morini, 34, that drug driving was just as socially unacceptable as drink driving.
Morini, at the time of Casita Bella at Rhewl near Mostyn, admitted driving a Vauxhall Astra at The Nant, Mostyn, on October 19 when he had 152 microgrammes of cocaine in his blood compared to the legal limit of ten.
But the level of Benzoylegonine, a metabolite of cocaine, was 2,208 mirogrammes compared to the legal limit of 50.
At Flintshire magistrates’ court at Mold he was jailed for 90 days and banned from driving for two years.
District Judge Gwyn Jones told him that drug driving was just as socially unacceptable as drink driving.
“Many people still feel it is acceptable. Let me make it quite clear that it is not,” he said.
The amount of controlled drugs in his blood was high - one drug was 40 times the limit.
When he saw a police officer waiting for him he continued to drive without stopping for some 100 metres.
His previous convictions showed that he had a tendency to use illicit substances.
The case was so serious that only an immediate sentence of custody could be justified, he said.
Prosecutor Rhian Jackson said that the defendant was stopped by police who wanted to speak to him following a complaint from his brother.
She said that he had provided his brother’s details when stopped by the police previously.
Fiona Larkin, defending, said that the defendant had in view of the offences been evicted by his mother and he now lived in a flat in Hamilton Square, Birkenhead.
There had been massive fallout within the family after it emerged what the defendant had done.
The defendant was a self employed window cleaner whose partner was pregnant.
He was very embarrassed and regretful because of what he had done, she said.
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