A man temporarily lost his driving licence after admitting to “jumping in the car” to make an appointment after taking drugs.

Before Suffolk Magistrates’ Court was Murray Crofts, who admitted two charges of drug driving.

The 45-year-old was pulled over in Out Westgate by police on April 24 earlier this year, after a police officer noticed Crofts “looking hard at him”.

The officer checked the vehicle’s insurance details and noticed that no men were insured to drive the car.

When the officer stopped Crofts, he admitted that he had recently taken cocaine and had taken cannabis some two hours previously.

Samples of Crofts’ blood showed that in his system there were 369 microgrammes of benzoylecgonine, the breakdown product of cocaine. The legal limit is 50 microgrammes, meaning that Croft

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