Never heard this one working before - do you think it would work for anyone else or just the billionaires kid?
A banker's son who was found to have cocaine in his car when he was stopped for jumping traffic lights was let off by magistrates without penalty for the drugs.
Officers who pulled him over found he was disqualified from driving and also discovered a biscuit wrapper containing cocaine in the passenger footwell.
Agostinelli, of Cadogan Gardens, Chelsea, passed a drugs test and told police he didn't use drugs and that the cocaine must have belonged to a passenger, whom he refused to name.
The court heard Agostinelli was stopped just after 6pm on 30 January after he jumped traffic lights in Sumner Place in South Kensington.
Prosecutor Jade Adenubi said: ‘He was questioned about the drugs in the car and he said in relation to that, that he didn’t use drugs himself.
‘He said they asked him in relation to the item that was seized, the white powder, "Were you aware of what it was?" and he said "I’m not going to lie, I knew what it was".’
Agostinelli said the drugs were left by a ‘degenerate’ and a recreational drug user, the court heard.
The court was told that in interview, the financier's son said: ‘I would rather not say, I don’t want to involve someone else right now.
'He is a recreational drug user who doesn’t really do it that often.'
He said: ‘I was scared, I am not a criminal, I don’t want to be in that world or associated with it.’
Mark Haslam, defending, said that receiving a drugs conviction would have significant consequences for the student who survives on a ‘modest allowance’ from his family. His family live in the US including his dying grandmother, who is dying of cancer,’ added Mr Haslam. "You can't get into America with a drug conviction you know" said Mr Ismene from the balcony.
And he said the defendant pleaded guilty to the drugs charge on the basis that the cocaine was in the car, although he said it did not belong to him.
District Judge Quentin Purdy told Agostinelli: ‘I am prepared to treat the drugs matter as being possession in a very technical sense - but not as a drug user or abuser and not with intent to supply.’
'I'm going to make no separate penalty as far as [the cocaine] is concerned - it is an unusual disposal'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...es-stopped-police-jumping-traffic-lights.html
A banker's son who was found to have cocaine in his car when he was stopped for jumping traffic lights was let off by magistrates without penalty for the drugs.
Officers who pulled him over found he was disqualified from driving and also discovered a biscuit wrapper containing cocaine in the passenger footwell.
Agostinelli, of Cadogan Gardens, Chelsea, passed a drugs test and told police he didn't use drugs and that the cocaine must have belonged to a passenger, whom he refused to name.
The court heard Agostinelli was stopped just after 6pm on 30 January after he jumped traffic lights in Sumner Place in South Kensington.
Prosecutor Jade Adenubi said: ‘He was questioned about the drugs in the car and he said in relation to that, that he didn’t use drugs himself.
‘He said they asked him in relation to the item that was seized, the white powder, "Were you aware of what it was?" and he said "I’m not going to lie, I knew what it was".’
Agostinelli said the drugs were left by a ‘degenerate’ and a recreational drug user, the court heard.
The court was told that in interview, the financier's son said: ‘I would rather not say, I don’t want to involve someone else right now.
'He is a recreational drug user who doesn’t really do it that often.'
He said: ‘I was scared, I am not a criminal, I don’t want to be in that world or associated with it.’
Mark Haslam, defending, said that receiving a drugs conviction would have significant consequences for the student who survives on a ‘modest allowance’ from his family. His family live in the US including his dying grandmother, who is dying of cancer,’ added Mr Haslam. "You can't get into America with a drug conviction you know" said Mr Ismene from the balcony.
And he said the defendant pleaded guilty to the drugs charge on the basis that the cocaine was in the car, although he said it did not belong to him.
District Judge Quentin Purdy told Agostinelli: ‘I am prepared to treat the drugs matter as being possession in a very technical sense - but not as a drug user or abuser and not with intent to supply.’
'I'm going to make no separate penalty as far as [the cocaine] is concerned - it is an unusual disposal'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...es-stopped-police-jumping-traffic-lights.html
