An Oxfordshire man has been banned from the roads for a year after police in Liverpool caught him drug-riding an e-scooter.

William Jacobsen, 32, was behind the controls of the electric scooter in Burnand Street on February 9 this year when he was caught over the limit for cannabis.

Jacobsen, from West Challow, near Wantage, pleaded guilty at Sefton Magistrates’ Court this month to driving a motor vehicle over the drug driving limit.

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Blood tests showed he had 7mgs of tetrahydrocannabinol, the active ingredient in cannabis. The legal limit is two.

The Merseyside magistrates fined him £180 and ordered he pay £192 in costs and surcharge, court records showed.

He was disqualified from driving for 12 months.

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