Ilminster man sentenced for drug driving along the A303

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A MAN from Ilminster has been sentenced at Yeovil Magistrates’ Court for drug driving and driving without insurance on the A303 in Somerset.

Ashley Freeman, 31, of Ile Court, Ilminster, appeared at Yeovil Magistrates’ Court on June 9 of this year.

Freeman appeared in court charged with the use of a motor vehicle on a road/public place without third-party insurance and driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.

Freeman pleaded guilty on Tuesday, June 9 of this year, to drug driving a blue BMW 235i along the A303 in South Petherton without insurance on December 10 of last year.

Freeman has been subject to an obligatory disqualification from driving for 12 months.

Freeman was also ordered to pay a fine of £703, £85 in costs, and a surcharge of £280.

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