A DRIVER has been banned for two years and has been given a suspended jail sentence for driving while over the legal limit for cocaine.

Lewis James Brown, 19, drove a white Ford Transit on the A66 at Embleton while he had more than than twice the legal limit for cocaine in his blood.

Tests showed he had 22 micrograms. The legal limit is 10 micrograms. On the same day he was also driving while disqualified and without insurance.

He faced further charges of driving without insurance and driving while disqualified on March 23 on Crow Park Road in Keswick.

For the offences on March 23, Brown, of Field View in Flimby, was jailed for eight weeks, suspended for 18 months.

Brown was jailed for 10 weeks, again suspended for 18 months, for the offences on February 28. These are to run concurrently to the other sentence. He was also told to pay a £122 victim surcharge and £85 in costs.

He appeared before Workington’s magistrates’ court on Wednesday and admitted all of the offences.