A landscape gardener has been banned from the road after refusing to give police a blood sample.

Jordan Hatt admitted to the offence when he appeared at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court.

The Huddersfield court heard that at 11.30pm on April 22 police received a report about two males wearing face coverings trying to break into a Vauxhall Corsa.

The officers found the vehicle parked down a dirt track on Whitehall Road in Linthwaite.

Hatt, 26, appeared and approached the officers.

The court was told that he appeared erratic and excitable, jumping around and waving his arms.

He confirmed that he was the owner of the vehicle and had parked it there while he was working on the nearby farm.

The officers believed that he may have been under the influence of drugs and arrested him.

Hatt gave a negative breath test but then refused their requests for a blood sample and was charged with failing to provide a specimen for analysis.

Victoria Molloy, mitigating, said that police were suspicious because her client’s vehicle was warm but he had not been driving it.

She added: “Police are entitled to ask a person to provide a sample and that’s been requested of him.

“He did initially comply with a swab sample, which was inconclusive, and then a breath test.

“When at the police station he was asked for a blood sample and he felt irritated and victimised by them.

“Out of madness he refused to provide the sample of blood.”

District Judge Peter Johnson banned Hatt, of Rawson Street in Bradford, from driving for 12 months.

He must also pay £200 fine, £85 costs and £20 victim surcharge.