Cleaners find drugs in hotel room

[0utrider]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/s...ds/7202930.stm

A pair of rock festival revellers were arrested after cleaners found drugs in their hotel bedroom, a court has heard. Jacob Child and Darren McCue, who were attending the Rock Ness Festival near Inverness, returned from breakfast to find police searching their room.
The officers found £200 of cocaine, 34 ecstasy tablets worth about £150 and a tiny amount of cannabis resin worth £2.
Child and McCue were each fined £300 by Sheriff Alexander Pollock when they appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court.
Fiscal depute Gary Aitken said cleaning staff at the city's Holiday Inn had found what appeared to be "drug-related paraphernalia" while the pair were out of their room on 10 June last year.
They reported their concerns to a supervisor and the police were called.
'Regrets his actions'
When questioned, gardener Child, 28, and McCue, a 32-year-old joiner, said they had been attending the festival and the drugs had been for their own use.
Child and McCue, both from Edinburgh, pleaded guilty to being in possession of cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis.
Solicitor David Hingston, defending Child, said his client had no previous convictions and the drugs had been bought for the duration of the festival.
He added that it was the first time Child had tried Class A drugs, and that all the drugs found by the police were recreational rather than addictive.
James Grant, representing McCue, said his client had a two-year-old daughter with his partner. His partner also had a nine-year-old daughter from a previous relationship who lived with them.
"He bitterly regrets his actions and is ashamed to be here," Mr Grant said.

[old hippie 56]

Swim knew a couple of room cleaners down around Houston, they was constantly finding drugs and money hid in the rooms. But, they never did call the cops.

[AquafinaOrbit]

Call the cops? Wouldn't be the first thing on my dogs mind but I guess to each their own. (Guess the maids did not agree with that saying though as they chose to try and stop others actions.)

[I<3Salvia]

I guess the didn't expect a tip...

[Purest]

Little Red Dinosaur has stayed in a multitude of hotels around the world, and has had problems with cleaners in the majority of places he has stayed in, going as far as to say to the staff on his last hotel visit not to clean the room at all during his stay purely because the previous hotel he had been at had thrown out water bottles and various other items he had left in his room for his swimming competition.

One wonders however how on show the drugs were, as cleaners in theory will not go through drawers when people are staying in rooms, and if they were in a closed section of a backpack/suitcase then they shouldn't have gone in there in the first place.

[Mint boi]

The officers found £200 of cocaine

Since when did the gbp become a unit for measuring the amount of a drug?

[Lettish]

Originally Posted by mint boi

Since when did the gbp become a unit for measuring the amount of a drug?

I thought that, and £4.40 for an ecstasy pill?!

[Evil GIR]

He bitterly regrets his actions and is ashamed to be here," Mr Grant said.

Screw that what is this church ?

Sorry farther i repent for my sins !!

Swim was busted for the whole cacti thing and swim only regrets getting caught. Next time swim will have a chemical/paraphernalia free house when ordering large amounts of cacti.

[Bajeda]

He added that it was the first time Child had tried Class A drugs, and that all the drugs found by the police were recreational rather than addictive.

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What the pear said.

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