Woman, 21, arrested after police noticed 'strong smell' coming from her car

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A woman arrested behind the wheel of her Audi A1 after police smelt cannabis has been spared a driving ban after arguing she hadn't been smoking the drug at the time.

A court heard Morgan Steadman-Dempsey, 21, claimed it must have remained in her bloodstream for days. Business development administrator Steadman-Dempsey tested three-and-a-half times the drug-driving limit after passing police officers detected 'a strong smell of cannabis' and approached her car as she was parked up with friends in Mossley, Tameside, on January 8.

But when quizzed about the reading, she said had not smoked cannabis since New Year parties a week earlier and didn't think she was unfit to drive.

She claimed she had no idea traces of the drug would still be in her system. At Tameside magistrates' court last Thursday Steadman-Dempsey, of Seddon Avenue, Openshaw, faced a ban after she admitted being in charge of a vehicle when over the limit for cannabis, but was slapped with 10 points on her driving licence. READ MORE: Tree surgeon who claimed he 'found himself in middle' of riot holds head in hands as truth comes out Emilee Creasey, prosecuting, said: "The circumstances were that officers saw the defendant in a vehicle, with the vehicle running.