Jade Goody’s widower Jack Tweed charged with drug-driving after ‘testing three times over limit’

Jade Goody’s widower Jack Tweed has been charged with drug-driving after being arrested in December.

The former Celebrity Big Brother star, 39, was allegedly three times over the limit when he was pulled over by police in Chelmsford, Essex.

He now is facing one count of ‘driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit,’ The Sun reports.

Tweed reportedly had 5.6 micrograms of delta-9- tetrahydrocannabinol, the active component of cannabis, per litre of blood in his system.

It is almost three times over the legal limit of two microgrammes.

He’s due to appear at Chelmsford magistrates’ court on Monday.

A spokesperson for Essex police told Metro: ‘A man is due to appear in court on Monday charged with a drug-driving offence.

‘Jack Tweed, 39, was arrested on Three Mile Hill, Chelmsford, on 6 December.

‘He was charged with driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.’

Tweed was married to Big Brother star Goody died, who died aged 27 after a battle with cervical cancer. The couple married one month before her death.

Tweed remains dedicated to his late wife, often sharing old photographs of the pair together on Instagram and fundraising for cancer charities in her memory.

Her public battle with the disease prompted hundreds of thousands of calls to Cancer Research UK and she was credited with boosting awareness of the condition.

He began dating Goody in 2006 and the pair appeared on Celebrity Big Brother together the following year.

They married in 2009 at Down Hall country house near Hatfield Heath, after Tweed proposed by the River Thames.

Through their marriage, Tweed became stepfather to Goody’s two sons, Bobby and Freddy who she shared with former partner Jeff Brazier.

Tweed became estranged from the boys for some time but reconnected with them several years ago and they are believed to have a good relationship.

Metro has contacted a representative for Jack for comment.