A ROUND-up of recent Andover cases heard at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court, including two drug drivers who were banned from the roads.
Ahmed Ghafry, 61, of Southfield Way, Frome, must pay £85 in costs after pleading guilty on August 7, to driving a motor vehicle in Andover on February 22, with a proportion of a specified controlled drug over the legal limit.
He appeared on Monday, August 11, 2025, and was banned from driving for 14 months starting from August 7, 2025.
Ghafry also pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis in Andover on February 22, 2025. The drug was ordered to be forfeited and destroyed. No separate penalty was imposed for this offence.
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John Winters, 44, of Lillywhite Crescent, Andover must pay £729 in fines, costs, and a surcharge and was banned from driving for 12 months after pleading guilty on August 12, 2025, to drug-driving.
On March 4, 2025, he drove an Audi A3, on the A393 at Micheldever when the proportion of Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in his blood was not less than 2.8 micrograms per litre, above the specified limit.
He was fined £460, ordered to pay £85 in prosecution costs and a £184 surcharge, and disqualified from driving for 12 months.
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