A Boroughbridge man has been jailed for a string of driving-related offences.

Connor Parkin, 28, appeared at Harrogate Magistrates Court for sentence on Friday (January 30) after previously admitting three counts of drug-driving and two counts of being in charge of a vehicle when over the drug-drive limit.

According to court documents, Parkin was in charge of a Ford Transit van on Nicholas Gardens in York on October 22 last year, when he was over the legal drug-drive limit. 

A blood sample taken at the time recorded 23 micrograms of cocaine per litre of Parkin’s blood – more than twice the legal limit of 10 micrograms – and more than 800 micrograms of benzoylecgonine, a by-product of cocaine breakdown, per litre of his blood.

The legal limit for benzoylecgonine is 50 micrograms, meaning Parkin was 16-times the limit.

Court documents add just five days later on October 27, Parkin was driving the same van along the A658 Harrogate Road in Leathley.

A blood sample taken at the time found 18 micrograms of cocaine, more than 800 micrograms of benzoylecgonine and 47 micrograms of ketamine per litre of Parkin’s blood.

The legal limit for ketamine is just 20 micrograms.

Parkin, of Brigante Place, was jailed for a total of 16 weeks.

Court records say the nature of the offences is so serious only a custodial sentence can be justified, and cited Parkin's “very poor history of similar offending”.

He was also banned from driving for 62 months.