A drug driver faces being banned for up to five years after being caught high on cocaine and ketamine. 

Carl Hewit, 32, was arrested at the wheel of a Honda Civic after he pulled up in a car park on the B1150 North Walsham Road in the early hours of March 14.

Jessica Neequaye, prosecuting at Norwich Magistrates’ Court, said he had admitted being the driver.

After failing a roadside drugs wipe, blood tests revealed he was more than twice over the limit for cocaine and three times the limit for ketamine, a powerful anaesthetic popular as a recreational drug.

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Appearing via video link from HMP Norwich where he is on remand for separate offences, Hewit, of Brick Kiln Road in North Walsham, pleaded guilty to drug driving.

The court was told he had 50 previous offences including two previous drug drive convictions in the past 10 years.

Magistrates warned he could face a custodial sentence and that a mandatory disqualification from driving could be up to 59 months.

Representing himself he said: “I didn’t go out to hurt anyone but I shouldn’t have done it.”

His sentencing was adjourned until a later date.