Cheshire drink and drug driver banned from driving after appearing at Crewe court

By Ryan Parker

17th May 2023 | Local News

Reece Griffiths-Loonie, 24, of Northwich, was sentenced at Crewe Magistrates' Court on Thursday 11 May (Ryan Parker).
Reece Griffiths-Loonie, 24, of Northwich, was sentenced at Crewe Magistrates' Court on Thursday 11 May (Ryan Parker).

A 24-year-old Cheshire drink and drug driver who had no insurance and failed to stop for police has been banned from driving and fined - after appearing at Crewe court.

Reece Griffiths-Loonie, pleaded guilty to possession of a class B drug at an earlier hearing - before returning to Crewe Magistrates' Court for sentencing on Thursday 11 May.

The 24-year-old, of Parkfield Road, Northwich, was driving an Audi A1 along Chester Way, Northwich, on September 5, 2022 - without insurance and above the specified limit for alcohol.

Reece Griffiths-Loonie was driving an Audi A1 along Chester Way, Northwich, on September 5, 2022 - without insurance and above the specified limit for alcohol (Google).

Griffiths-Loonie failed to stop when required to do so by a police officer and was caught in possession of a quantity of amphetamine - a controlled class B drug.

The Northwich man gave a reading of 89 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood to police – just over the limit of 80.

He also had benzoylecgonine – a metabolite of cocaine – in his system at 184 microgrammes per litre of blood.

This was more than three times the 50 microgramme limit.

Crewe Magistrates' ordered for the forfeiture and destruction of the amphetamine - fining Griffiths-Loonie £166.

For drink driving, the Cheshire man was fined £250 and disqualified from driving for 12 months.

Reece Griffiths-Loonie, of Parkfield Road, Northwich, was handed a 36-month driving ban (Google).

He was hit also hit with six-month ban for not having insurance and handed a 12-month driving ban for drug driving (36-month total).

No separate penalty was given to Griffiths-Loonie for failing to stop.

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