A young man jailed in 2018 for kidnap after he bundled a teenager into a car was caught drug driving twice within the space of a week.

Billy Livingstone, 20, of Ermin Way, Latton, has now been banned from the roads for 18 months.

He was behind the wheel of a BMW 1 Series on September 4 and October 11 last year. ON the first occasion the level of cannabis in his blood was almost three times the legal limit, the second time it was nearly twice.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of drug driving and was fined £600 with a £34 victim surcharge. The bill was deemed paid by time served in the courthouse.

In 2018 Livingstone was jailed for two years at Swindon Crown Court after he admitted snatching a 13-year-old boy from McDonald’s and bundling him into a waiting car. Under sentencing rules, people typically serve half their sentence before they are eligible for release on licence.

Then 19, the red-headed kidnapper was said to have grabbed the youngster “like a rag doll” before driving him off to woods where he kept him captive.

Part of the incident on Monday, July 9, was captured on CCTV at the Greenbridge McDonald’s restaurant.

Livingstone could be seen walking in and grabbing the slightly built schoolboy by the scruff of the neck, then frog-marching to his nearby VW Golf.

Watching the footage, Judge Jason Taylor QC said: “He was just dragged out like a rag doll.”

As Livingstone bundled him into the vehicle he was heard saying, “Keep him in there, hold him down”, the court was told. Other members of the public were so concerned by what they saw that one videoed some of it on his mobile phone.

The boy’s mother went out in her car to join police searching for her son before he eventually returned home after about two hours. Videos were circulated on social media site Snapchat of the boy being threatened. His victim was said to have been too scared to speak out for fear of being branded a grass.