An ex-veteran who completed two tours in Afghanistan and spent time in Ukraine was caught drug-driving in Worksop. Allan Hallbert, 33, of Kilton Road, Worksop, was seen in a car driving at speed and swerving in the road at 11pm on May 7.
When police in a marked car stopped Hallbert, he had red eyes and his speech was slurred, Nottingham Crown Court was told on Tuesday, March 22. A test for alcohol was negative but a drugs test was positive for cannabis. He pleaded guilty at court to drug-driving.
Hallbert had previous convictions for drug-driving and possessing cannabis and the new offence put him in breach of a suspended prison sentence. Julia King, mitigating, said Hallbert, who recently lost his job as a welder on the railways, had been using cannabis for some time.
