A CHEF from the Isle of Wight was served up a hefty sentence for drug driving in his Renault Clio, when he appeared before Island magistrates.

Luke Cairns, of Pineview Drive, Carisbrooke, admitted drug driving in Cowes on April 14.

The 30-year-old was pulled over on suspicion of drug-driving on Nodes Road at 10am that day.

Police were alerted because they stopped him for the same offence a few days earlier, said Lauren Stone, prosecuting, at the Isle of Wight Magistrates' Court.

Cairns, with no previous convictions, gave a positive roadside drugs sample on the previous occasion, for which he will be sentenced on a later date.

Cairns repeated the offence and was arrested.

At Newport Police Station, Cairns's blood test revealed he had 95ug/L of benzoylecgonine, or BZE, a cocaine metabolite. The legal specified limit is 50.

For Cairns, Amy Hosell said her client had taken cocaine a couple of days before his arrest and had used the car to get to work.

"He actually had two drugs in his system — the other being the cannabis derivative, THC, in his blood, which was below the specified limit," Miss Hosell said.

Magistrates banned Cairns from driving for 16 months and fined him £666, with a £266 surcharge and £85 costs.