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Driver stopped for drug driving in Chippenham found with a knife POLICE in Chippenham found a lock knife in a vehicle they stopped for drug driving. Now a Bristol man has been given a suspended prison sentence and banned from driving for a year. Luke Alders, 19, of Kenmare Road, Bristol, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of drugs, possession of a lock knife, possession of cannabis, driving without a licence and with no insurance and obstructing an officer at Swindon Magistrate s Court on Tuesday. The teenager has been disqualified from driving and was handed a six-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, for the possession of the knife.
Swindon Magistrates Court and file image of pennies Pictures: NEWSQUEST A DRINK driver who had a penny in his mouth when he was breathalysed has been fined and banned from driving.
Swindon man Kenneth Nyoka, 54, had been due before magistrates in Southampton and Luton in 2017 to face charges of failing to provide and drink driving. When he failed to turn up for either hearing warrants were issued for his arrest. But it wasn’t until more than three years later that he was picked up by police in Swindon and put before the magistrates. Prosecutor Keith Ballinger told the bench at Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday afternoon that Nyoka had been stopped behind the wheel of his BMW in Dunstable Road, Luton, on March 30, 2017.
Bristol man caught with knife and cannabis while driving without a licence avoids prison
Luke Alders has been disqualified from driving for a year and has to complete 100 unpaid work
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A Bristol man caught with a knife, driving on drugs and behind behind the wheel without insurance or a licence has avoided jail.