A MAN caught driving while on drugs twice in one night, a court heard.

Daniel Bradbury, 42, was banned from driving for two years after pleading guilty at Wrexham Magistrates Court to three offences of driving while on cocaine.

Justin Espie, prosecuting, said officers had spotted Bradbury driving a Peugeot on Cefn Road, Wrexham, just before midnight on April 15.

He was speeding over the 30mph limit and officers stopped him on Churchill Drive where they carried out a saliva test which proved positive for cocaine.

Bradbury was taken to custody at St Asaph where his blood was taken and he was found to have 12 microgrammes of cocaine in his system.

The legal limit is 10 microgrammes per litre of blood.

Bradbury, of Chapel Gardens, Penley, between Whitchurch and Wrexham, also tested positive for the metabolite benzoylecgonine giving a reading of 497 microgrammes. The limit is 50 microgrammes per litre of blood.

Mr Espie described how Bradbury was then taken back to his vehicle and told not to drive but after telling officers he would stay at a friend’s house he was stopped again driving his car in the early hours of April 16 after being recognised by officers.

Bradbury was tested again and was found to still have 462 microgrammes of benzoylecgonine in his blood.

Andy Holliday, defending, said his client was of previous good character but had had “a tough time” since splitting from his partner five years previously.

She had emigrated to Australia with her new partner and Bradbury’s two children and he had found it difficult to communicate with them.

Mr Holliday said Bradbury had previously worked for a security firm but was currently unemployed and he fully accepted he had cocaine in his system.

“The temptation was too much,” said Mr Holliday.

“He knocked on a friend’s door but when they did not open he didn’t want to sleep rough and took the opportunity to shoot home.”

Chairman of magistrates, John Pereira, told Bradbury that committing a second offence so soon after the police had told him not to drive was an aggravating factor in the case and banned him from driving for two years.

Bradbury was also fined £120 for each of the three offences and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.