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| Croydon Magistrates Court |
A Buckinghamshire company director, caught behind the wheel of his Volvo after consuming a cocktail of drugs, has been fined and banned from the roads.
Management consultant Stephen Richard Winspear, 48, had taken cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis before he was stopped by police on the Old Kent Road in south-east London.
He was also caught with a small quantity of ecstasy in his possession.
Winspear, of George Farm, Marsh Road, Little Kimble, Aylesbury was sentenced at Croydon Magistrates Court.
He pleaded guilty to driving on November 3, last year with a proportion of a controlled drug, namely benzoylecgonine – a metabolite of cocaine – in his blood.
Winspear also pleaded guilty to driving with a quantity of MDMA (ecstasy) in his blood and THC (cannabis), plus a count of possessing ecstasy.
For driving under the influence of the illegal drugs he was fined £1,500 and disqualified for twelve months.
Winspear was also fined £100 for possessing the ecstasy and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £32 victim surcharge.
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