A TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD woman who admitted to drug driving has been sentenced by a court.

Tyler Burke, of Mount Pleasant Avenue, Parr, appeared before Liverpool, Knowsley and St Helens Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, April 23.  

Burke pleaded guilty to three counts of drug driving in relation to cocaine in her system and Benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine. She also admitted to driving with ketamine in her system.

The 25-year-old also admitted to possession of cocaine.

Burke committed the offences on January 21 this year, having been caught drug driving on Warrington Road, in Rainhill.

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The defendant was sentenced to a community order and must undertake 10 days of rehabilitation activity and do 100 hours of unpaid work over 12 months.

Burke was qualified from driving for 17 months.

Magistrates also ordered the defendant to pay costs to the Crown Prosecution Service of £120, and a surcharge of £114.

Her guilty pleas were taken into account upon sentencing.