A man who used a stolen debit card has been fined £100.

Lee James Willis, of Cedar Walk, Douglas, said he did not know the card a friend gave him to use had been stolen.

Willis, aged 31, admitted an offence of fraud by false representation and was also ordered to pay £25 compensation to the card owner.

Willis also pleaded guilty to separate offences of possessing class C drugs diazepam and buprenorphine, and having a vehicle in a dangerous condition and was fined £100 for each of those three offences.

Prosecuting advocate James Robinson told the court that Willis was stopped and searched while driving a Volkswagen Golf on September 1 at Hillary Park. Seventeen diazepam tablets worth between £8.50 and £17, and two buprenorphine pills worth between £10 and £20 were found.

On October 7, Willis’ Volkswagen Golf was deemed not roadworthy by police and taken to the test centre.

Willis was then captured on CCTV footage on October 13 using a stolen debit card at Newsbeat in Douglas on October 13.

A probation report said that Willis said he had been struggling with depression and anxiety and had bought the diazepam ’on the street’.

Regarding the card he said that a friend had asked him to go the shop and given him the card to buy supplies, saying he could buy himself some cigarettes as well.

Willis denied knowing it was a stolen card.

The report said that Willis said he was due to start work at a roofing company shortly.

Defence advocate Peter Taylor said: ’It is a fine balance whether he should have made checks regarding the card. He trusted someone he should not have done.’

Magistrates also endorsed Willis’ licence with three penalty points for the driving offence and ordered him to pay £250 prosecution costs.