A man was fined and banned from the roads after he admitted several offences in Magistrates’ Court.

Thomas Westhead, 22, pleaded guilty to having cocaine, driving or trying to drive a car with the drug in his system and driving while impaired by alcohol when he appeared in court at an earlier date.

Westhead, from Southampton, committed the offences in Warwick on February 18, 2024, and reappeared in court yesterday for sentencing.

Magistrate Craig Attridge fined Westhead a total of $3,700 for the offences and disqualified him from driving all vehicles for 18 months.

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