THE MARQUIS OF BLANDFORD ARRIVED AT COURT ON MONDA
THE MARQUIS OF BLANDFORD ARRIVED AT COURT ON MONDAY WITH
MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY TO FACE DRUGS CHARGES.
LORD JAMIE BLANDFORD, WHO STANDS TO INHERIT ONE OF THE
COUNTRY’S LARGEST FORTUNES, STEPPED OUT OF A BLACK CHAUFFEUR-DRIVEN
ROVER SALOON WITH HIS FATHER, THE 11TH DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, AND
SISTER, HENRIETTA, WHO IS LADY GELDA.
BLANDFORD, 30, AN UNEMPLOYED INSURANCE BROKER, WHO GAVE HIS
ADDRESS AS BLENHEIM PALACE, FACES CHARGES OF POSSESSING AND
SUPPLYING COCAINE FOLLOWING HIS ARREST IN A BASEMENT FLAT IN EDGWARE
ROAD ON DECEMBER 13.
CALLED TO THE DOCK AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE CROWN COURT UNDER THE NAME
OF CHARLES JAMES SPENCER CHURCHILL, BLANDFORD – A GREAT NEWPHEW OF
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL – WAS SMARTLY DRESSED IN A DARK BLUE TWO PIECE
SUITE, A LIGHT BLUE SHIRT, AND PATTERNED BLUE TIE.
FIVE OTHER DEFANDANTS, FOUR MEN AND A WOMAN, ALSO FACE CHARGES
RELATING TO COCAINE.
THE CHARGES WERE NOT PUT TO ANY OF THE DEFENDANTS.
LEGAL
ARGUMENTS TOOK UP THE MORNING, DEALING WITH THE ADMISSIBILITY OF
EVIDENCE AND THE CHARGES.
THE TRIAL WAS PUT OFF AND THE JURY WAS SENT HOME WITHOUT BEING
CALLED TO THE CROWDED COURTROOM.
JUDGE HENRY POWNALL, QC, MADE A CONTEMPT OF COURT ORDER THAT
NONE OF THE LEGAL WRANGLING SHOULD BE PUBLISHED.
BLANDFORD, WHOSE FAMILY MOTTO IS ‘FAITHFULL THROUGH
MISFORTUNE’, WAS EDUCATED AT HARROW, AND IS SET TO INHERIT AN
ESTIMATED #50 MILLION FORTUNE.
HE WAS GRANTED BAIL ON CONDITION THAT HE RESIDES AT A SURREY
DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE CLINIC WHEN REQUIRED, OR AT BLENHEIM
PALACE OR WITH HIS SISTER.
BAIL WAS GRANTED ON A SURETY OF #5,000.
THE OTHER DEFANDANTS ARE: ANDREAS GEORGIO, 30, A SHOP SALESMAN,
OF LANGRIDGE, RHYL STREET, KENTISH TOWN, MELINIE SOSINSKI, 36,
UNEMPLOYED, OF NELL GWYN HOUSE, CHELSEA, LAWRENCE ZEPHYR, 53, A
COMPANY DIRECTOR, OF ASHMORE ROAD, MAIDA VALE, GEORGE YIANCAKAS, 33,
A COMPANY DIRECTOR, OF LOWER SLOANE STREET, CHELSEA, AND ANGELOS
SAVVIDES, 37, A SHOP OWNER OF HYDE PARK MANSIONS, CABBELL STREET,
MARYLEBONE.
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