Man pleads guilty to drug-driving

A driver queueing in traffic to go to McDonalds turned out to be over the cannabis limit when police spoke to him.

Brandon William Clague Lindsay of Ashley Park in Onchan appeared before magistrates at Douglas Courthouse.

He pleaded guilty to drug-driving on April 18, and prosecutor James Robinson offered no evidence to a second charge dating to January 9 after an earlier hearing was told he’d been given a roadside drugs test eight days before they were legally introduced.

The court heard just before 6.30pm on April 18, police spoke to Lindsay as he waited in line on Peel Road – they noticed he smelled of cannabis and he failed a roadside test.

Blood tests later showed he was more than one and a half times over the legal limit to drive.

Magistrates told him courts treat drug-driving as seriously as drink-driving and banned him from getting behind the wheel for two years.

He was also fined £1,000.