A HARLOW man has been disqualified from driving after being found to have been driving under the influence of drugs.

Simon Haigh, aged 36, of The Briars, Harlow, pleaded guilty to the following at Chelmsford magistrates court.

On 31/01/2018 at Harlow drove a motor vehicle, namely Ford Focus, on a road, namely Elizabeth Way, when the proportion of a controlled drug, namely Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, in your blood, 4.9 microgrammes of drug per litre of blood, exceeded the specified limit

Contrary to section 5A(1)(a) and (2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

Haigh was fined £693.00 and disqualified for twelve months.