Bolton man, 22, banned a year for cannabis driving in Leyland
Connor Heyes, 22, was banned from driving for 12 months and fined £346 after admitting drug-driving with cannabis in his blood and possessing cannabis. Stopped on Southport Road in Leyland, he was sentenced at Preston Magistrates' Court on 23 October 2026.
🇬🇧 Preston Magistrates' Court, Preston · United Kingdom
A man has been banned from driving after being caught behind the wheel with
cannabis in his system.[1]Connor Heyes, of Beechcroft Avenue in Darcy Lever,
was found to have 4.4 micrograms of cannabis per litre of blood while driving on
Southport Road in Leyland on May 23.[1]The 22-year-old was also found to be
in possession of cannabis.[1]Heyes appeared at Preston Magistrates’ Court on
Friday, October 23, where he was banned from driving for 12 months.[1]
He was also fined £346 and ordered to pay £85 in court costs.[1]The cannabis
was ordered to be forfeited and destroyed.[1]The court said the fines were
reduced by a third due to Heyes’ guilty plea.[1]
The Preston Magistrates listings for Friday, October 23 also name Connor Heyes
as a first-appearance defendant.[2]They list his offences as possessing Class
B cannabis or cannabis resin and driving with a specified controlled drug above
the limit.[2]
Photos and video
Street view of Southport Road in Leyland, where Heyes was driving when found with cannabis in his system. Photo: GooglePhoto details
Callum Roper, 22, of Holton Road, Barry, was jailed for 30 months at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting offences involving the supply of cannabis and magic mushrooms. He pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of both drugs between 3 December 2025 and 14 September 2026 and had been remanded in custody awaiting sentence.
Bolton Crown Court sentenced seven members of three linked drug gangs that trafficked cocaine and cannabis between Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and North Wales. Five men received prison sentences of up to eleven and a half years, while two couriers received community orders and two leaders await later sentencing.
Daniel Thompson, 36, was found with 8,223.6 grams of cannabis resin, valued at up to £35,950, when officers searched a house on Moss Side Lane in Rixton in July 2023. Chester Crown Court gave him a nine-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months and 100 hours of unpaid work after he admitted possessing the resin with intent to supply and possessing cocaine.
Sentenced 1Cannabis 8.2236 kgPrison 9 months suspended for 12 months
Bradford Crown Court jailed Alfie Leahy, 21, for five years and Connor Broadbent, 26, for three years and four months over drugs found when police raided two homes in the Holmewood area at dawn on 17 July 2026. Cannabis was seized at a Grayswood Crescent address and cocaine, cash and jewellery at Dawson Street; police put the total street value of the drugs at more than £22,000.
Charged 2Prison 5 years (Leahy); 3 years and 4 months (Broadbent)
