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36-year-old pregnant drug-driving woman caught behind the wheel of an uninsured car returning from McDonald’s after taking cocaine avoids jail
- Adnams was arrested driving an unlocked car under the influence of cocaine
- The mother-to-be had used cocaine the night before and was pulled over driving home
- The 36-year-old woman from Stoke-on-Trent was fined £120 and ordered to pay costs.
a pregnant woman was detained and arrested under the influence of cocaine, driving an unlocked car home from McDonalds.
Police seized 36-year-old Sarah Adnams near her home in Lightwood, Stoke-on-Trent, after they suspected she had been using drugs.
A road test revealed that he was over the legal driving limit for cocaine.
Sarah Adnams was arrested in August last year, driving an unlocked car under the influence.
Added driving limits for illicit drugs to legislation After the difficulties of prosecutors to prove that certain drugs harm drivers.
Cocaine possession has a separated penalty fee.
The crime took place shortly after 6:30 p.m. on August 18, 2022.
Ms Adnams, who is due to give birth in April, had reportedly taken cocaine the night before.
Alan Dawson, his defense lawyer, said: ‘The next day he decided to go to McDonald’s. She returned to her house and was detained by the police.
She was accused of not having insurance. There is nothing in the documents to suggest that the defendant’s driving was below the required standard.
“She tells me that she took a monthly payment option with the insurance policy at a rate of £80 per month. Somewhere along the line, the payment had stopped. The policy was no longer in effect.
‘At the roadside, police suspected that she might have taken a substance. Two blood samples were taken from her in custody and sent for her analysis.
‘the bze [benzoylecgonine] the reading was 800 against the limit of 50 and the cocaine reading was 32 against the limit of 10.
“It’s not the same as alcohol and it’s just indicative that it’s over the legal limit.”
Adnams, of Hampshire Crescent, pleaded guilty to two counts of driving under the influence of drugs; driving without insurance; and violating a suspended sentence.
The magistrates fined Adnams £120 and ordered him to pay £135 in costs and a £48 surcharge.
They marked breach of the suspended sentence with a £50 fine.
Police arrested Adnams (pictured) in August last year, on suspicion that he had used drugs.
Stoke on Trent Crown Court, where Adnams was fined and required to pay costs and a surcharge
In December last year, a pregnant mother under the influence of cocaine was arrested after running over her sister in Kent.
Lisa Bowden, 33, did not know she was pregnant at the time, but had been drinking and doing cocaine before driving to her sister’s house with their two children in the car to have an argument.
He told his sister, Jade, ‘I’m going to kill you. Do not move. I’m going to run over you.
Bowden was caught on CCTV beating her sister, for which she was later arrested.
Following her arrest, Lisa Bowden’s drug reading registered 128 micrograms of benzoylecgonine, a byproduct of cocaine. The legal limit is 50.
He later claimed that the positive test result was the result of someone spitting in his mouth.