Hastingwood woman disqualified for driving under influence of drugs
Crime / Fri 27th Jun 2025 at 04:44pm
A HASTINGWOOD woman has been disqualified after driving under influence of drugs
Jo Firmin, aged 47, of Hastingwood Villas, Hastingwood, Harlow pled guilty at Chelmsford magistrates court to the following.
On February 22nd, 2025 at Ongar drove a Ford Focus, on a road, Epping Road, North Weald, when the proportion of a controlled drug, namely Benzoylecgonine, in your blood, not less than 296 micrograms per 1L of blood, exceeded the specified limit.
Firmin was disqualified for seventeen months. Fined £165.00
Mazzy
2025-06-27 21:35:56
A paltry sentence unsurprisingly.
David Forman
2025-06-30 05:59:49
Benzoylecgonine is a chemical compound that is produced when cocaine is metabolized in the body. It is an inactive substance that can be detected in blood and urine for up to 48 hours after cocaine use. Its half-life is 12 hours, meaning that it takes 12 hours for half of the substance to be eliminated from the body. However, I'm amazed that someone living in a relatively good area and at age 47 is using Cocaine. I suspect they believed in their dealer's sales pitch of "A little bit of Charlie at the weekend does nobody any harm." Think again.
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