A 'rough diamond' who gets into trouble and 'parties hard' was arrested in Liverpool after taking a work van without permission and testing positive for cocaine, a court heard. Luke Frost, previously of Kent Close, Worksop, was stopped in a Ford Transit van in Leeds Street, Liverpool, after he pulled around a stationary vehicle at a red traffic light.
Frost tried to give police false details and could not remember his date of birth, Nottingham Crown Court heard on January 5. Officers formed the view Frost was under the influence of something and had white matter in the corner of his mouth.
He was in Liverpool for work and had taken cocaine and cannabis. He had taken the work van without permission and 'just wanted to go home', said Stefan Fox, prosecuting.
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But he was taken to a police station where he refused to give police a blood sample for analysis and was arrested for failing to provide one on July 16. Frost has 31 convictions for 51 offences - 13 for theft and dishonesty and two for burglary. His last conviction was on February 4 last year, where he received a suspended prison sentence for affray, which he had now breached.
The maximum sentence for failing to provide a specimen is six months in prison, an offence in Frost's case described by Mr Fox as a 'deliberate' refusal to provide, and he admitted at the road side he had taken cannabis and cocaine. Recorder Michael Auty, King's Counsel, told Frost: "You told police you had taken cocaine and cannabis.
"However much you may have felt you remained in control of yourself, just think for a moment how awful it would be if, under the influence of drugs, you hurt and killed someone?" After pleading guilty at the first opportunity to this offence, the judge reduced the sentence to four months, then to three months, because he had to take into account the question of totality. "I must not make the overall sentence too high," he said.
The previous suspended sentence of 15 months was imposed consecutively, two months consecutively for a theft, and a driving ban of three years and ten months. His driving licence will be endorsed for offences in Liverpool of driving without a licence and insurance, ignoring a red traffic light.
Roger Wilson, mitigating, said 27-year-old Frost accepted the offences and has been in custody for the best part of six months. "He is a rough diamond. He gets into trouble. He parties hard.
"He has undertaken qualifications. He works hard".
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