DOOR staff thought something was wrong when window cleaner Daniel Andrew Wray spent too long in the toilet of a York nightspot, York magistrates heard.

So they investigated and caught the 28-year-old with his birthday present of cocaine, said Steven Ovenden for the Crown Prosecution Service.

Magistrates told him it would prove to be a very expensive birthday for him and fined him £200 with £50 prosecution costs plus £15 Government-imposed victim surcharge.

Wray, of Whistler Way, Copmanthorpe, pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine. He told the court he had been out in York city centre celebrating his birthday on April 3. In a pub, a “friend of a friend” gave him the cocaine as a present and said “it will keep you awake for your birthday”.

Wray said he stuck the present in his sock and forgot all about it.

Mr Ovenden said shortly after midnight, Wray was at bpm in Rougier Street.

“The door staff's suspicions were raised by him spending what they thought was a long time inside the cubicle inside the toilets,” Mr Ovenden said. “He was approached and produced to the staff a white bag from his sock.” Wray later told police he knew it was cocaine.

At court, he said that he had been using the toilet for its official use and he had just taken a long time. He was not a regular cocaine user, the court heard.