Tyk Cochrane had never had a driver's licence when he failed drug test in Orange

Tyk Cochrane, 24, of Sir Neville Howse Place was driving a car with West Australian number plates on Bathurst Road when the police stopped him for a random breath test at 5.25pm on November 20.

Cochrane told the police, "I don't have a licence," when he was asked to produce one and he confirmed he had never had a driver's licence in Australia.

Although he passed a breath test, Cochrane failed the road-side drug test which was positive for both methamphetamine and cannabis.

He was arrested and said he had smoked cannabis about a week earlier.

Magistrate David Day convicted Cochrane and placed him on a six month conditional release order and disqualified his driver's licence for three months for driving with drugs in his system.

Mr Day also convicted him and placed him on a nine-month community correction order and disqualified his driver's licence for three months for driving despite never being licensed.

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