A DRUG driver has been banned after getting behind the wheel with cocaine in his body.

Stuart Pearce was stopped in a Ford Focus is Old London Road, Brighton, and eight days later was stopped in Dyke Road Avenue in Brighton.

The 32-year-old tested positive for the class A drug.

At Brighton Magistrates’ Court he was banned for 22 months.

Pearce, of Queen’s Road, Brighton was fined £200. He must also pay a £32 surcharge and £85 costs.