DRUGS CHARGES AGAINST POP STAR MARILYN WERE SENSAT
DRUGS CHARGES AGAINST POP STAR MARILYN WERE SENSATIONALLY
DROPPED ON WEDNESDAY DESPITE HIS ADMISSIONS TO POLICE THAT HE HAD
USED HEROIN.
THE SINGER – ACCUSED OF POSSESSING AN UNSPECIFIED AMOUNT OF
HEROIN – CONFESSED TO POLICE AFTER HIS ARREST THAT HE HAD USED THE
KILLER DRUG IN LONDON AND ALSO ON TRIPS TO NEW YORK.
BUT WHEN HE APPEARED AT MARYLEBONE COURT TODAY THE
PROSECUTION OFFERED NO EVIDENCE AND MAGISTRATE MR GEOFFREY NOEL – WHO
THREE WEEKS AGO FINED GENDER BENDER SINGER BOY GEORGE #250 FOR A
SIMILAR OFFENCE – DISMISSED THE CASE.
AFTER THE HEARING 23 YEAR OLD MARILYN DASHED FROM COURT
PURSUED BY NEWSMEN AND SAID: ‘I’M OFF TO CELEBRATE, I’M VERY HAPPY.
WAVING TO A GROUP OF FANS THE STAR – CLEARLY SURPRISED AT
THE MAGISTRATES DECISION – ADDED: ‘I DIDN’T EXPECT THIS, I’M
ECSTATIC – I EXPECTED DEATH’.
MARILYN, OF PEMBRIDGE VILLAS, NOTTING HILL, LOOKED WORRIED
AS HE ARRIVED AT COURT FLANKED BY A MYSTERY BLONDE GIRLFRIEND AND A
BALD MINDER.
THE SINGER, CHARGED UNDER HIS REAL NAME OF PETER ROBINSON,
WRUNG HIS HANDS AS HE STOOD IN THE DOCK DRESSED IN AN ALL BLACK SUIT
AND SHIRT.
HE SPOKE JUST ONCE DURING THE TEN MINUTE HEARING WHEN HE
PLEADED ‘NOT GUILTY’ AS THE CHARGE WAS READ.
THE COURT HEARD THAT MARILYN WAS ARRESTED ON JULY 8 DURING
THE POLICE OPERATION CODENAMED ‘CULTURE’ – AFTER THE GROUP CULTURE
CLUB FRONTED BY BOY GEORGE.
THE INVESTIGATION WAS INTO DRUG PUSHERS IN SHOW
BUSINESS, PARTICULARLY THOSE SUPLYING BOY GEORGE AFTER REVELATIONS
ABOUT HIS #800 A DAY HABIT.
DURING POLICE QUESTIONING ‘HE TOLD OFFICERS HE HAD BEEN
TAKING HEROIN BUT WAS NO LONGER DOING SO’, SAID MR BRYAN MCCARDLE,
PROSECUTING.
BUT MR MCCARDLE ADDED THAT MARILYN WAS ‘ON THE VERY FRINGE
OF THIS INQUIRY’.
AND HE ADDED: ‘NO DRUGS WERE FOUND ON HIM, THERE WAS
NO EVIDENCE OF HIM TAKING DRUGS, OR ANY EVIDENCE OF A DEPENDENCY ON
DRUGS.
‘NOTHING, APART FROM HIS OWN ADMISSION TO CONNECT HIM TO
HEROIN’.
MR MCCARDLE SAID IT WOULD BE ‘UNSAFE’ TO PROCEED WITH THE
CASE AND ‘NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST’.
HE ADDED: ‘I WOULD OFFER NO EVIDENCE AT ALL’ AND MAGISTRATE
MR NOEL DISMISSED THE CASE.
AFTERWARDS MARILYN LED REPORTERS IN A CAT AND MOUSE CHASE
BEFORE HE WAS DRIVEN AWAY IN A TAXI.
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