A drug driver has been warned he will go to prison unless he changes his attitude, after being given a suspended prison sentence.
A drug driver has been warned he will go to prison unless he changes his attitude, after being given a suspended prison sentence.

Merlin Ziggy Bonner, 35, admitted two charges of drug driving, as well as driving while disqualified, when he appeared at Llandrindod Wells Magistrates’ Court last week.
The offences occurred in Llandrindod last July, only months after Bonner was stopped by police for drug driving.
He was disqualified for those offences in October last year, and was this week given a three-year disqualification, because he committed a similar offence within a 10-year period.
Magistrates said the offences warranted a suspended prison sentence because Bonner was drug driving both while under police investigation and having committed the previous offences.
The 35 year-old of High Street, Llandrindod, was stopped just after midnight on July 6, 2024, after police saw a red Suzuki Swift driving at speed towards the spa town.
Prosecuting, Ms Skye Connors said: “The defendant was stopped and arrested after a driving licence check showed he was disqualified.
“His pupils were pinpointed and a drug wipe proved positive for cocaine and cannabis.”
The cocaine reading showed there was 12 micrograms of the Class A drug in his blood – the legal limit is 10 micrograms.
It also showed that there was 800 micrograms of benzoylecgonine (BZE) – a metabolite of cocaine – in his blood.
The legal limit for BZE is 50 micrograms – meaning he had 16 times the legal amount of it in his blood. She said there was no evidential reading of cannabis.
Ms Connors said Bonner was banned from driving for six months last February after totting up too many points. The original drug driving offences occurred in March, for which he received a two-year ban in October, while he was also made the subject of a community order.
Probation officer Jade Price said Bonner had shown a “lack of engagement” with Kaleidoscope and has not completed any of his 10 rehabilitation activity days associated with the community order.
Mitigating, Mr Owain Jones said: “He knows he’s at risk of custody. He realises he needs to step up in regards his community order.
“He is sorry and wants to work with probation, he sees the benefit of it. It has been a messy year.”
Magistrates handed Bonner a 16-week jail sentence, suspended for 18 months.
They also revoked the current community order and re-sentenced him. The suspended sentence order will include 20 rehabilitation activity days.
He must pay a £154 surcharge and £85 costs.