10-07-2025
M54 Toyota driver had heroin on him when he was arrested
A drug driver from Bishop's Castle, who had heroin on him when he was arrested, has had his licence taken off him.
Kevin Gaskin was brought before Telford Magistrates' Court on Friday, July 4, charged with a series of offences.
The court was told how the 57-year-old had been driving a Toyota Prius along the A5 to junction 7 of the M54 in Telford on December 22, last year, when the offences took place.
He admitted to drug-driving after a blood test showed he had 15 micrograms of cocaine per litre of blood when the legal limit is 10µg.
Gaskin pleaded guilty to a further drug-driving charge after he had 287µg of benzoylecgonine, the metabolite of cocaine, in his system. The legal limit for that is 50µg.
He also admitted to having 5.2µg of 6-Monoacetylmorphine, the principal metabolite of heroin, in his system, when the legal limit is 5µg, as well as 87µg of morphine in his system, when the legal limit is 80µg.
Gaskin of Union Street in Bishop's Castle, also admitted possession of Class A drug heroin.
Magistrates gave him an obligatory 12-month disqualification and he was fined £200 for having 6-Monoacetylmorphine in his system. No separate penalty was given for the other driving offences.
They also ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the heroin and fined him £120 for the possession offence.
