A 26-YEAR-OLD man convicted of producing cannabis and drug driving has been banned from the road for three years.

James William Howard, of Waterdale Crescent, Sutton, was sentenced at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on Monday (April 23).

Howard had already indicated guilty pleas to producing a controlled Class B drug and dishonestly using £11,866.88 of electricity on March 20.

Two days later he admitted in court to driving with a proportion of Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol, a component of cannabis, in his blood on Robins Lane, Sutton.

The drug driving was committed on September 14 last year and the cannabis production offences relate to November 2017.

Howard was given a 12-month community order for the cannabis production and use of electricity offences, which requires him to undertake rehabilitation activity.

He must also do 60 hours of unpaid work. The court also issued a forfeiture and destruction order for the drugs.

Howard was also disqualified from getting behind the wheel for three years for the drug driving conviction.