Cocaine driver from Alness ‘learned a lesson’ as Highland sheriff delivers verdict

A 26-year-old Easter Ross man was congratulated by a sheriff for becoming a father just days earlier - and then banned from driving for a year.

Dean Clark, of Hugh Mackenzie Drive, Alness appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court representing himself and admitted driving with 635mcgs of cocaine in his system when the legal safe limit is 50mcgs near North Kessock on January 16 this year.

Clark was also ordered to carry out 80 hours of unpaid community work.

First offender Clark told Sheriff David Harvie of the new arrival and added: "I have learned a lesson and I won't do it again."