A MAN from Rhyl is to pay more than £300 and has been banned from the roads after he was found guilty of drug-driving while also using his mobile phone.
David Hampson, 45, of Brickfield Park, was accused of the following while driving a Ford Transit vehicle on Grange Road, Rhyl on January 4:
• Driving with 17.3 micrograms per litre of blood of cannabis in his bloodstream.
• Driving while using a mobile phone.
Mr Hampson pleaded guilty to both offences at Llandudno Magistrates’ Court on May 25.
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He was fined £220, and received an obligatory disqualification from driving of 16 months.
Mr Hampson is also to pay costs of £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service, and a £34 victim surcharge.
This amounted to a total of £339, which he will pay in monthly instalments of £25 from June 23.
No penalty points were added to Mr Hampson’s driving record.
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