A MOTORIST is due to appear in court after being charged with driving with cannabis and cocaine in his system.

Ioan Alexander Badica is alleged to have committed the offence in Barrow on March 14.

The 30-year-old defendant faces two charges of driving a vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.

It is said to have happened on Hindpool Road.

Mr Badica, of Dominion Street on Walney, will appear before the bench at South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.