THESE four drivers have been in court recently after being caught drug driving in Carmarthenshire.

Their cases were heard at Llanelli Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, March 30, and they have each been banned from driving.

Here we take a look at their cases.

BENJAMIN NIPPARD, 45, of Llanfynydd in Carmarthenshire, was caught driving on Tir Y Dail in Ammanford on October 17 after taking ketamine.

Police found the proportion of Ketamine in his blood was 28 microgrammes per litre of blood (µg/L) – which is over the limit of 20µg/L.

He pleaded guilty and was fined £120 and was ordered to pay £85 in costs and a £48 surcharge.

Nippard was disqualified from driving for a year.

CHRISTOPHER YANDELL, 36, of Heol Cae Gurwen in Gwaun Cae Gurwen, was almost six times the drug-driving limit for cannabis when he was stopped by police.

Yandell was caught on Park Street in Ammanford on October 18, and recorded 11 microgrammes of delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol – or cannabis – per litre of blood. The legal limit is 2µg/L.

He admitted drug driving, and was fined £120. Yandell also had to pay £85 in costs and a £48 surcharge, and was banned from driving for 12 months.

MARK THOMAS, 27, of Llwyd Road in Ammanford, was also over the limit after using cannabis.

Thomas was caught driving on Margaret Street in the town on October 29.

When tested by police, he was found to have 4.9 microgrammes of delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (cannabis) per litre of blood.

On admitting the charge, he was fined £120, and had to pay £85 in costs and a £48 surcharge.

Thomas was banned from the roads for three years.

ANDREW O'CONNELL, 35, of Abercych in Pembrokeshire, was banned for driving high on cocaine.

O’Connell was pulled over by police on the A484 at Cynwyl Elfed on October 24.

Officers found O’Connell had more than 290 microgrammes of benzoylecgonine – the main metabolite of cocaine – per litre of blood – almost six times the limit of 50µg/L.

He pleaded guilty, and was fined £80 and disqualified from driving for a year.