Leicester court fines man £323 for cannabis possession and drug-driving
Manjinder Sadhra, 38, was stopped on the night of 5 August 2026 for having no MOT; police found a cannabis grinder, he failed a roadside drug test and a search of the Vauxhall Corsa found cannabis. He pleaded guilty at Leicester Magistrates' Court on 28 October to drug-driving and possession, and was fined £323 and banned from driving for 12 months.
🇬🇧 Leicester Magistrates' Court, Pocklingtons Walk, Leicester · United Kingdom
- Arrested
- 1
- Charged
- 1
- Fine
- GBP 323
Police stopped warehouse worker Manjinder Sadhra, 38, on the night of 5 August
2026 because the car had no MOT.[1] They found a cannabis grinder on the
passenger seat and could smell cannabis.[1] He failed a roadside drug test and
was arrested, and a search of the Vauxhall Corsa found a quantity of cannabis.[1]
He had pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence of cannabis and
possessing cannabis.[1] Defending himself, he said: “I was in the wrong.”[1]
He called it “just one silly mistake” and told the court he worked in a
warehouse and cared for his elderly father, with whom he lived in Fernhurst
Road, Braunstone Town.[1]
He was fined £323 and ordered to pay £85 in court costs and a £129 victim
surcharge.[1] The court also banned him from driving for 12 months.[1]
Sources
- Highcross bomb threat and mum who attacked police officer among cases at Leicester Magistrates' court. Leicestershire Live, 31 October 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- No weight or amount was given for the cannabis found in the Vauxhall Corsa.
- The article does not say where the car was stopped.
- The article spells the defendant's surname both Sadhra, in the heading, and Sadra, in the text; this report uses Sadhra.
- Only one report of the case was found, in a roundup of several unrelated court cases.
- The same roundup records cannabis possession among the offences of Glen Drainville and Tsvetan Donchev, separate cases not covered here.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Leicestershire Live: He was sentenced at Leicester Magistrates' Court on Wednesday 28 October.
