A TEENAGER was caught driving a car while more than 11 times the drug-driving limit.

Rhys Walsh was caught on two occasions behind the wheel while he had the Class A drug cocaine in his system.

The first incident saw the 19-year-old stopped by police and found to have 114mg of cocaine per litre of blood on McNeill Avenue, Loanhead, on May 2 last year.

He was then caught a second time less than a fortnight later when he provided the police with a positive test result of 52mg of cocaine per litre of blood on Peffermill Road, Edinburgh, on May 14.

The legal limit is just 10mg of cocaine per litre of blood.

Walsh, of Northfield Gardens, Prestonpans, pleaded guilty to both drug-driving offences during a hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last month and at the time he was given an interim driving ban.

He also admitted to a third offence of dangerous driving by driving at excessive speeds, mounting a footpath and colliding with a fence in Loanhead.

Walsh also failed to observe give way signs before mounting a pedestrian footpath and colliding with a metal fence on the town’s Gaynor Avenue on June 28 last year.

Sentence was deferred further to next month on all matters after the court was told that the required criminal justice social work reports were not available.