A MAN has been banned from driving for one year after driving over the drug limit on the M606.

Nathan Andrew Rowlands, 27, of Stoney Bank in Radcliffe, Manchester, appeared before Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court on April 29 to be sentenced.

He was charged with driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug, namely THC, above the specified limit.

Rowlands was caught on December 14 last year while driving a Mercedes Sprinter on the southbound carriageway of the M606 motorway in Bradford.

He admitted the offence and was banned from driving for 12 months. He was also fined £120, ordered to pay £85 costs to the Crown Prosecution Service and a £34 victim surcharge.

The total of £239 must be paid by May 13.

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