Ban and unpaid work for Wisbech teenage drug driver

A Wisbech teenager has been convicted of drug-driving at more than six times the limit for cocaine.

Police officers on traffic observations at Elm on the A1101 saw Thomas Lipscomb driving a Vauxhall Corsa with a rear number plate light not working.

The 19-year-old was pulled over and he failed a roadside drug wipe. He was arrested and a test in custody gave a reading of 65 microgrammes of cocaine per litre of blood; the legal limit is ten microgrammes.

At King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (5), Lipscomb, of Cocketts Drive, pleaded guilty to drug- driving on September 7 last year.

He was not represented in court and offered no mitigation.

Lipscomb was disqualified from driving for 12 months, given a community order with 150 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay £85 costs and £90 victim surcharge.