festival organiser arrested for allowing cannabis smoking

[Ground Elder]

just read on another forum that the organiser of Thimbleberry was arrested and charged yesterday for allowing people to smoke cannabis on his premises during the festival

 

[aqua]

any source for it?

 

[Miss Peabody]

 

[Riklet]

Bah that's fucking bullshit. I know one or two people who went to that, think it was meant to be a good 'un...

If it's true, then i'm feeling for him! Harsh one! Some knobbers have nowt better to do, clearly, than screw with this guy.

 

[Ground Elder]

any source for it?

http://www.tribal-living.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=80303#post80303

 

[kevkaos]

Yesterday Andy Thimbleberry was arrested for allowing people to smoke cannabis on his premises during the festival. He was yesterday formally charged and is due to appear in court on this charge early December.
As part of the production team I am waiting to see if I get arrested for aiding and abetting the smoking of cannabis on the festival site.

I wonder how this will effect any festival in the future as it will set the president that any person allowing a festival to happen on their land will or could be charged with the same offense.

So what do people think about this news?????????

to say the least of my feelings I'm gutted and very pissed off

Please log onto Andy Thimbleberry's face ache and give him support he really needs it, his facebook name is Andy Thimbleberry.

Thanks for your support

from someone called Ricky Wally

 

[Ground Elder]

.

 

[tombowler]

thought i had heard your voice before on tl

 

[William of Walworth]

Which Police force was this? Sounds like one who can't be arsed to concentrate on proper crime in places where proper crime happens ...

 

[topaz]

*shudders* at the seriousness of this.

they gonna try and set a precedent so that festival organisers are afraid to put on a party? jesus christ i despair. this simply can't be allowed, where the hell is freedom disappearing to? up the noses of the politicians along with all the cocaine no doubt

 

[Ground Elder]

Which Police force was this? Sounds like one who can't be arsed to concentrate on proper crime in places where proper crime happens ...

Durham.

 

[Voley]

where the hell is freedom disappearing to? up the noses of the politicians along with all the cocaine no doubt

Right on!

 

[Intastella]

Madness.

Dunno what that Malarky guy's on about on TL...think he's had a bit too much to smoke himself!

 

[Tort]

So are they going to start arresting the Mayor of every town & city in the land just because somebody gets caught with a joint in the local park??

Fucking outrageous

 

[free spirit]

Andy's been seriously pissing the local plod off for years unfortunately, he had his license refused a couple of years ago and went ahead with the festival anyway and I believe got prosecuted for ents without a license (well, I know he got prosecuted as I spoke with him while it was ongoing, just not sure what the result was).

can't really say any more on a public forum other than that I'm not massively surprised about this.

fair play to andy though for keeping doing it despite all the shit.

 

[purplex]

Stupid

 

[Clint Iguana]

Cardiff band Sick Note playing benefit for him tonight in cardiff, plus releasing a benefit single.

http://www.sicknotesuck.co.uk/

 

[xes]

the law is a retarded fucking ass.

 

[ddraig]

Cardiff band Sick Note playing benefit for him tonight in cardiff, plus relasing a benefit single.

http://www.sicknotesuck.co.uk/

is there anything else going on other than them?
pm of location possible please mate?

 

[Ground Elder]

[Andy] walked free from Durham Crown Court yesterday after the prosecution offered no evidence and Judge Christopher Prince recorded a formal not guilty verdict.

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/5059965.Festival_cannabis_charges_dropped/

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-...-boss-cleared-of-drugs-charge-61634-26022485/

 

[UTJF]

So am I right thinking this is Cardiff police? Fucking fucktards, it's not like they've got more important stuff to deal with.

 

[William of Walworth]

So am I right thinking this is Cardiff police? Fucking fucktards, it's not like they've got more important stuff to deal with.

As Ground Elder said above, it was Durham Police -- it was just the benefit gig that was in Cardiff.

Mr Norman's release is good news all round -- but still, he has now got to apply to get his confiscated cash back to pay for infrastructure for this year's festie.

For Mark Giuliani, the CPS lawyer of all people, to have serious misgivings about whether a case like this is feasible to prosecute, should be good news for all festie organisers who honestly follow the rules and regs.

Durham Police have egg on their faces after this I reckon.

 

[jontz01]

Maybe it's just me that's thinking this BUT - just how does a case manage to get into court in the first place without any evidence? Were they planning on prosecuting based on heresay and rumour?

I dispair.

 

[BettyBlue]

Great news.

 

[William of Walworth]

Maybe it's just me that's thinking this BUT - just how does a case manage to get into court in the first place without any evidence? Were they planning on prosecuting based on heresay and rumour?

I dispair.

I wouldn't, myself. The Durham Police tried to make a go of it (possibly out of malice and dislike of Mr Norman? ) and the CPS sound like they went along with the prosecution at first, but then their lawyer seems to have realised after a certain point that the case was going nowhere legally.

I see it as quite a setback for the Police

 

[VolatileMolatov]

The worst thing about this is that during last years Thimbleberry there were no arrests at all !