A HARLOW resident has admitted driving under the influence of drugs, twice in two months.

Russell Halliday, aged 38, of Templefields House made the plea to the following at Chelmsford magistrates court .

On April 9th, 2020, on Edinburgh Way, Harlow, you drove a Volkswagen Golf when the proportion of a controlled drug, Benzolyecgonine, in your blood, namely 190 micrograms of analyte per litre of blood, exceeded the specified limit.

On May 27th, 2020, on High Street, Epping drove a VW Golf when the proportion of a controlled drug, namely Benzoylecgonine in your blood, namely of 115 micrograms of drug per litre of blood, exceeded the specified limit.

Halliday was also found in possession of cocaine and cannabis, for which he received no separate penalty.

Halliday was banned from driving for 22 months. He was fined £365.00 and made subject to a community order.