A ROSS-on-Wye man has been disqualified from driving for three years after admitting multiple motoring offences.

Andrew James, 43, of Horseman Close, pleaded guilty at Herefordshire Magistrates’ Court to two charges of drug driving, and one charge of driving without insurance.

The court heard in April, James drove a BMW on the A49, Callow, with more than 800 micrograms of Benzoylecgonine per litre of blood.

Benzoylecgonine is the primary metabolite formed in the human body when cocaine is broken down by the liver, and the legal limit is 50 micrograms per litre of blood.

It was also found he had 32 micrograms of cocaine per litre of blood, exceeding the legal limit of 10 micrograms per litre of blood.

With his early guilty plea taken into account, James was disqualified from driving for three years, fined £120 and ordered to pay £85 in costs.