A drug dealer from Bootle was told he could have killed someone as he was sentenced for dealing horse tranquilisers at the Parklife festival.
Welder Scott Williams travelled to Manchester from Merseyside with dozens of wraps of ketamine.
But the 19-year-old was spotted acting suspiciously by stewards and ordered to go to the Heaton Park festival’s security tent. Williams tried to escape the security team’s grip but was soon caught and then searched by police.
Officers found £375 in cash and 12 wraps of ketamine.
Asked if he had been dealing drugs, Williams said: “To be honest I have.”
Texts on his iPhone also revealed how he had planned and prepared to sell drugs at the festival. He later admitted bringing 25 £10 wraps with him and pleaded guilty to possessing class B drugs with intent on June 7 last year.
Tom Watson, defending Williams, of Keir Hardie Avenue, Bootle, was ‘ashamed’ by his crime, which he said had stunned his otherwise respectable family and left his mother ‘beside herself’.
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He added: “They have difficulty believing what he has done. Fortunately now he is back to the young man that they remember”.
Recorder Tony Cross QC described ketamine ‘as one of those drugs that can kill’. Mr Watson said Williams now understood that ‘someone’s son or daughter could have dropped down dead from a dodgy dose’, adding: “It hadn’t occurred to him before that he could have caused a real tragedy for another family.”
Passing sentence, Recorder Cross said: “In the days and hours that led up to you getting on the coach to go to Parklife you must have been sitting in your bedroom with a blade of some sort, cutting up ketamine and putting it into bags.
“You weren’t worried about what effect that drug might have on anybody at the festival, you didn’t particularly care. You didn’t know if a 16 or 17-year-old might buy the ketamine and have an adverse reaction, you just wanted to make some brass. Consider what harm you have caused to your family who all their lives have gone about their business earning lawful money, bringing up a child… and then all of a sudden you repay them by getting into drugs.”
The judge gave Williams a six-month suspended jail sentence, with 200 hours of unpaid work, telling him: “Everybody deserves a second chance.”
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/