Driver stopped for drug driving in Chippenham found with a knife POLICE in Chippenham found a lock knife in a vehicle they stopped for drug driving. Now a Bristol man has been given a suspended prison sentence and banned from driving for a year. Luke Alders, 19, of Kenmare Road, Bristol, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of drugs, possession of a lock knife, possession of cannabis, driving without a licence and with no insurance and obstructing an officer at Swindon Magistrate s Court on Tuesday. The teenager has been disqualified from driving and was handed a six-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, for the possession of the knife.
Bristol man caught with knife and cannabis while driving without a licence avoids prison
Luke Alders has been disqualified from driving for a year and has to complete 100 unpaid work
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A Bristol man caught with a knife, driving on drugs and behind behind the wheel without insurance or a licence has avoided jail.
Daniel Hannan (left, circled) outside Swindon Magistrates Court A CANNABIS thief went along to a Home Office-sanctioned drug farm because he’d heard there was “field after field” of plants, magistrates were told. Daniel Hannan happened to go along to the cannabis farm near Swindon, the location of which was not disclosed at Swindon Magistrates’ Court yesterday, on the same day as a larger group. But 27-year-old Hannan maintained he had not been part of the bigger gang – telling JPs from the dock that he had gone along with one other friend. Fining him £230, chairman of the bench Dean Suckling said: “We’ve listened very carefully to your defence and we believe it was opportunistic, you acted alone and you only took a small quantity.”