Three year road ban for Wigan man who drove an animal transporter while high on drugs
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Michael Gibbons, of Bulteel Street, Pemberton, stood before Wigan justices to plead guilty to a series of motoring offences on two separate occasions.
The hearing was told that the 46-year-old tested positive for cocaine when police stopped an Iveco-Ford livestock carrier on the road near to his home on August 28 last year.
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Hide AdHe had initially denied the charges but later changed his pleas to guilty.
And he then pleaded guilty to driving a Renault Megane without a licence or MOT certificate – again on Bulteel Street – on December 19 and that he failed to stop for a police officer.
As well as the 36-month ban, he was ordered by the bench to complete 120 hours of unpaid work and 25 days of rehabilitation activities while there is £395 to pay to victim services and the courts.