A ROADIE ACCUSED OF SUPPLYING COCAINE TO POP STAR
A ROADIE ACCUSED OF SUPPLYING COCAINE TO POP STAR PHIL LYNOTT
WHO DIED FROM A DRUGS OVERDOSE IS BEING ‘VICTIMISED’, IT WAS CLAIMED
TODAY (FRI).
LIAM KELLY, WHO DENIES SUPPLYING THE THIN LIZZY SINGER WITH THE
CHAMPAGNE DRUG, FACES A YEAR IN JAIL BEFORE TRIAL.
HIS LAWYER TOLD A JUDGE THAT BOY GEORGE’S BROTHER KEVIN O’DOWD
WAS ALLOWED TO GO FREE BY MARYLEBONE MAGISTRATES WHILE AWAITING AN
‘IDENTICAL CHARGE’ – SUPPLYING HEROIN TO GEORGE.
MISS DORA BELFORD SAID O’DOWD WAS IN A ‘SIMILAR POSITION’ TO 31
YEAR OLD KELLY AND URGED JUDGE JJ FORDHAM TO GRANT HIM BAIL.
‘THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE FOUND IN HIS HOME TO SUGGEST HE WAS A
DEALER,’ SHE TOLD ACTON CROWN COURT.
‘MR KELLY HAS BEEN IN CUSTODY SINCE APRIL AND IT IS LIKELY THAT
HE WILL HAVE BEEN IN CUSTODY FOR MORE THAN A YEAR BY THE TIME HE
COMES TO TRIAL.
‘
KELLY, OF KILBURN HIGH ROAD, KILBURN, NORTH WEST LONDON, STOOD
QUIETLY IN THE DOCK WITH HIS HANDS FOLDED ACROSS HIS CHEST AS THE
CHARGES WERE READ OUT AT ACTON CROWN COURT.
MF
CNETRAL/DRUGS.
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HE DENIES THREE CHARGES OF SUPPLYING THE CLASS A DRUG TO LYNOTT
– WHO DIED EARLIER THIS YEAR – BETWEEN MARCH 30 AND DECEMBER 21,
1985.
THE IRISH BORN FATHER, WHO LIVED WITH HIS WIFE AND YOUNG
DAUGHTER AT KILBURN HIGH ROAD, KILBURN, NORTH LONDON, ALSO
DENIES TWO CHARGES OF POSSESSING SMALL QUANTITIES OF COCAINE AND
CANNABIS.
MISS BELFORD TOLD THE COURT THAT HIS COUSIN, MR THOMAS WALSH
AND HIS WIFE WERE PREPARED TO PUT UP ‘SUBSTANTIAL SURETY’ FOR HIS
BAIL.
SHE SAID KELLY, WHO HAD HIS LONG BLACK HAIR TIED IN A PONY
TAIL , WOULD ALSO STAY AT THE WALSH’S HACKNEY HOME, SURRENDER HIS
PASSPORT AND REPORT TWICE DAILY TO POLICE.
PROSECUTOR PETER KELLY SAID THAT POLICE FOUND COCAINE,
CANNABIS AND #2,500 CASH IN HIS HOME AND THAT HE MADE ‘CERTAIN
ADMISSIONS’ WHEN INTERVIEWED.
MF
CENTRAL/DRUGS.
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POLICE CONNECTED CHEQUES TOTALLING #13,000 BETWEEN OCTOBER
1983 AND DECEMBER 1985 WITH HIS ALLEGED DRUG DEALING.
AT THE TIME OF HIS ARREST HE WAS RECEIVING #29 A WEEK FROM THE
DHSS AND BECAUSE OF HIS LIFESTYLE HE MIGHT RE-OFFEND, THE COURT WERE
TOLD
DC PETER BLECKSLEY, OF THE CENTRAL DRUGS SQUAD AT SCOTLAND YARD
SAID HE FEARED KELLY WOULD ABSCOND OR COMMIT FURTHER OFFENCES IF
BAILED.
REMANDING KELLY, OF PREVIOUS GOOD CHARACTER, IN CUSTODY FOR A
DATE TO BE FIXED, JUDGE FORDHAM SAID: ‘I FEEL THAT MR KELLY HAS BEEN
INVOLVED IN THE SUBSTANTIAL SUPPLY OF DRUGS.
‘
THE BAIL APPLICATION BY DEFENCE WAS ‘TOTALLY OUTWEIGHED BY THE
PICTURE OF THIS CASE.
‘
OUTSIDE COURT KELLY’S WEEPING WIFE, WHO VISITS HIM DAILY IN
JAIL WAS TOO DISTRESSED TO TALK.
BUT MR WALSH SAID : ‘IT SEEMS TO US THERE’S ONE LAW FOR THEM
AND ANOTHER FOR US.
‘AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED LIAM HAS BEEN VICTIMISED BECAUSE OF
HIS STRONG TIES IN IRELAND.
‘
HE ADDED ‘WHY SHOULD HE HAVE TO STAY IN JAIL WHILE ANOTHER MAN
ON A SIMILAR CHARGE ROAMS FREE.
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