Two Friends Jailed for Smuggling Drugs into Music Festival

Two best friends who travelled from Scotland to smuggle £13,000 worth of ketamine and Ecstasy into a top music festival have been jailed. Andrew Rankin and James Jones, both 25, were arrested on the first day of the Creamfields festival in Cheshire after hiding their haul inside a crate of Strongbow fruit cider. A police sniffer dog led officers to five empty cans in the crate which were found to be stuffed with 514 tablets of MDMA valued at £5,140.

A further 197 wraps of ketamine, valued at more than £8,000, were also discovered. The arrests of Rankin and Jones, both of Dundee, occurred on August 25, 2022 - the day Lucy George, 25, was rushed to hospital after taking half an ecstasy tablet, along with vodka and nitrous oxide at Creamfields. Lucy, from Neath, South Wales who was due to start a job as flight attendant with Virgin Atlantic died later from multiple organ failure. Police arrested 125 people during the four day event at Daresbury and seized almost £90,000 worth of drug

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