Motorist who smoked cannabis in Ross-shire lay-by while awaiting breakdown assistance learns fate at Highland court
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A motorist who smoked cannabis while waiting in a Ross-shire lay-by for breakdown assistance was fined £420 and banned from driving for a year at Inverness Sheriff Court.
Sheriff Ian Cruickshank heard that 26 year old Azaad Hussain of City Road, Birmingham had a problem with his electric car while driving from the Isle of Skye to the mainland.
Hussain told the court that he thought it was a braking issue and stopped in a lay-by where he and his companion smoked the drug.
He claimed he had no intention of driving but to sleep overnight in the car between Kyle of Lochalsh and Balmacara on August 5, last year.
Although that would have been a defence against a disqualification, Hussain admitted to the sheriff that he had driven a short distance into the lay-by after taking the drug.
He pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence of cannabis.
The court heard that police were on the look-out for his vehicle after it had been reported as having a strong smell of cannabis.
