A MAN from Llandudno was spared jail despite receiving multiple convictions for drug-driving.

Adam Evans, 28, of St Davids Hotel, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, suspended for a year, at Caernarfon Crown Court today (September 4).

He had previously pleaded guilty to four counts of driving with a proportion of a controlled drug above the specified limit.

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Prosecuting, Laura Knightly told the court that, on February 23, Evans was driving a van in Towyn when he was stopped by police and ordered to undertake a roadside drugs test.

Evans, who was also subject to a suspended sentence order issued to him the previous October, subsequently tested positive for by-products of cocaine and cannabis.

On April 13 at 3.30pm, while awaiting a court hearing for the February incident, Evans was seen driving a Vauxhall Astra vehicle “erratically” on Rhuddlan Road, Rhyl.

Again, after being stopped by police, he returned positive test results for by-products of cocaine and cannabis.

Evans had been driving in excess of the 30mph speed limit across hatched road markings when a police constable indicated that he stop his vehicle.

Defending Evans, who had 16 previous convictions for 22 offences, Sarah Yates admitted that his compliance with the suspended sentence he received in October “could have been much better”.

But since these offences, she said he has “pulled his socks up” and “done much, much better”.

Ms Yates described Evans as “vulnerable”, having been diagnosed with autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, for which he is now medicated, having not been at the time of these offences.

She invited the court to draw back from sentencing Evans, a father-of-three, to immediate custody.

Though she said he “certainly needs help with his drug and alcohol use”, Ms Yates said that prison “would not get him off the merry-go-round he’s been on, but potentially make it worse”.

Sentencing, Judge Nicola Saffman also imposed a three-year driving ban on Evans, as well as extending the operational period of his suspended sentence to 24 months.

Evans will pay court costs of £425, as well as a statutory surcharge of £187.

Reserving Evans’ case to herself, Judge Saffman told him: “There will be no further second chances. I will ensure that, if this happens again, you will go straight to prison.”