A DRUG driving dad was caught when he pulled out in front of a police car without looking at a Worcester roundabout.

Car salesman Keemar Stewart was more than four and half times the limit for cannabis when pulled over by police on the A4440 Crookbarrow Way in Worcester.

The 30-year-old admitted drug driving, using a car without insurance and otherwise than in accordance with a licence on October 27 last year. The court heard how Stewart did not even have a provisional licence and had borrowed a friend's BMW 3 Series.

Kerry Lovegrove, prosecuting, said officers were on duty in Bath Road, Worcester at 3.55am when 'they saw a BMW 3 Series entering the roundabout without looking, causing the police officer to use her brakes'.

The defendant eventually stopped in Norton Road after officers activated their blue lights and when they spoke to him 'suspected he may be under the influence of drugs'.

He was arrested and taken to Worcester Police Station where a sample of blood was taken. This revealed that he had 9.1mg of Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) per litre of blood. THC is a metabolite of cannabis.

Stewart was therefore more than four and a half times the legal limit of 2mg.

"Officers noted when they spoke to him his behaviour was erratic and his eyes were bloodshot" said Miss Lovegrove.

Judith Kenney, defending, described Stewart as a single father who was raising his son on his own. He had 'fallen asleep unexpectedly' at a friend's house and had to get a train from Gloucester to Derby to collect his son, borrowing his friends car.

Ms Kenney said her client had stopped at the roundabout to let the police officer pass. "He doesn't realise they're interested in him," she said.

The solicitor said the officer stopped him because she believed him to be in breach of the temporary 30mph speed restrictions and 'seems to take issue with the fact he drove all the way down Broomhall Way'.

She added: "There's no attempt to get away."

Magistrates fined him £120 for drug driving and a further £120 for driving with no insurance. For driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence they imposed no separate penalty.

They further ordered him to pay £135 costs and a £32 victim surcharge. The bench banned Stewart of Argosy Way, Newport, from driving for 15 months.