A PORTISHEAD man with a ‘flagrant disregard for court orders, people and their property’ has been sent to prison for three months.

Marc Cullis, of Forth Avenue, committed a string of offences on the M25 near Godstone, Surrey, on June 21, 2023.

The 34-year-old was caught driving a Renault Trafic van when the proportion of a controlled drug (Delta-9-Tetrahydrocanabinol, or THC, the main psychoactive compound in cannabis) measured 4.8 micrograms per litre of blood.

The legal limit is two micrograms of THC per litre of blood.

He was also driving while disqualified and without insurance, and he had 47 grams of cannabis in his possession.

He was driving while disqualified and without insurance. (Image: Google Street View)

Cullis pleaded guilty to the offences at Hatfield Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, July 23.

He was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison, with magistrates saying the offences were “so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified”.

Court documents also said he has “a flagrant disregard for court orders” and “a flagrant disregard for people and their property”.

He was also hit with an obligatory 36-month driving ban.

Magistrates ordered that the cannabis be forfeited and destroyed by the police under section 27 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.