Minor cannabis convictions tried 'zealously', yet heroin/cocaine charges dropped?
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The war against drugs has become a battle of the classes in the United Kingdom, as once again the "Have's" prove they don't need to obey the same laws as the "Have-Not's".
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last week you will have heard about Hans Kristian Rausing and his wife Eva, who were arrested as they tried to take crack cocaine and heroin into the US Embassy in London. Mrs Rausing faced charges of possessing Class A and Class C drugs, as she was carrying the substances on her person.
Rausing, who is heir to the Tetra Pak packaging company, the son of Britains 6th richest man as well as being a personal friend of the Prince of Wales, had his expensive 5-storey mansion in prestigious Cadogan Place Chelsea, searched by the metropolitan police, who turned up 0.2oz (5.63g) of crack cocaine, 0.1oz (2.9g) of heroin and almost 1.8oz (52g) of cocaine on April 8 this year.
The solicitor for the multibillion-pound heir, Philip Smith, said that there had been a "a protracted course of correspondence from my office to the Crown Prosecution Service to enable them to make that very sensible decision."
The conditional caution means that the couple have accepted the charges along with "rehabilitative or reparative conditions" - and therefore will not face a court hearing.
They will have to sign an official document admitting to the offence, giving consent to the caution.
A record of the cautions will remain on the police national computer but the couple will not have criminal records as a result....Full Story
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last week you will have heard about Hans Kristian Rausing and his wife Eva, who were arrested as they tried to take crack cocaine and heroin into the US Embassy in London. Mrs Rausing faced charges of possessing Class A and Class C drugs, as she was carrying the substances on her person.
Rausing, who is heir to the Tetra Pak packaging company, the son of Britains 6th richest man as well as being a personal friend of the Prince of Wales, had his expensive 5-storey mansion in prestigious Cadogan Place Chelsea, searched by the metropolitan police, who turned up 0.2oz (5.63g) of crack cocaine, 0.1oz (2.9g) of heroin and almost 1.8oz (52g) of cocaine on April 8 this year.
The solicitor for the multibillion-pound heir, Philip Smith, said that there had been a "a protracted course of correspondence from my office to the Crown Prosecution Service to enable them to make that very sensible decision."
The conditional caution means that the couple have accepted the charges along with "rehabilitative or reparative conditions" - and therefore will not face a court hearing.
They will have to sign an official document admitting to the offence, giving consent to the caution.
A record of the cautions will remain on the police national computer but the couple will not have criminal records as a result....Full Story
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