A DISQUALIFIED driver who drove a motorbike while over a drugs limit has been jailed for two months and given a four-year ban.
Carlo Chiesa, 45, drove a Honda CBR 1000 motorbike on the A595 in Bigrigg on April 6 while he was banned from driving.
A blood test showed Chiesa had 800mcg of Benzoylecgonine – the body breakdown product for cocaine – per litre of blood. The limit is 50mcg.
Chiesa, of Red Lonning, Whitehaven, was also found to have a quantity of cannabis in his possession.
The defendant pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified, driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit, using a motor vehicle on a road without insurance and possessing a Class B drug.
Magistrates sitting in Workington felt only a custodial sentence could be justified due to the defendant’s ‘flagrant disregard for court orders’.
Other reasons for custody given by magistrates were the fact that Chiesa was on a community order at the time for a similar offence, he committed the offences while disqualified from driving in January 2023, a collision had occurred and damage was caused to other vehicles.
Chiesa was jailed for eight weeks and banned from driving for four years. He must pay £85 costs on his release from prison.
An order was made for the forfeiture and destruction of the cannabis.
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