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Author: chichi [Edit]
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Date Posted: 11:49:35 06/03/05 Fri
Fri 3 Jun 2005
Ex-Roller in drugs arrest
FORMER Bay City Roller Les McKeown has been arrested for allegedly supplying cocaine.
Drug squad officers went to the home of the 49-year-old lead singer in Dalston, East London, earlier this week.
It is claimed a small quantity of cocaine was found and the singer was detained by police on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs and possessing a Class A drug.
McKeown was released on bail pending further inquiries by the police, and instructed to return to an East London police station in July.
A police spokesman said: "We can confirm a man was arrested on June 1 on suspicion of being concerned with the supply of a Class A drug and possession of a Class A drug." The move comes after another former Roller, Pat McGlynn, was arrested along with three other men in a drugs bust last month.
The 47-year-old guitarist from Liberton Brae, Edinburgh, was due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court today.
They were held after officers from Scotland Yard's Middle Market Drugs Project staged a swoop in the car park of the Marriott Hotel, close to junction 26 on the M25 in Essex.
Half a kilo of high-grade cocaine, with a street value of £50,000, was recovered with a large sum of cash outside the hotel in Waltham Abbey, Essex, on May 17.
Two addresses in London and two in Edinburgh were also searched as part of the operation. The three others charged with supplying a class A drug along with McGlynn are Jason Abbott, 33, an engineer, of Hamilton Avenue, Barkingside; Raymond Burt 47, an auctioneer, of Sexton Court, Newport Avenue, London, and Alistair Murray, 36, a senior financial systems analyst, of Somerset Place, Edinburgh.
Burt has also been charged with possession of amphetamine.
The Middle Market Drugs Project was set up in November to tackle the supply of Class A drugs. It is made up of officers from the Metropolitan Police Service, Customs, City of London Police and the National Criminal Intelligence Service.
Mr McKeown, is already facing a trial over alleged drink-driving offences. He was charged with failing to stop, drink-driving and driving without insurance after his Volvo hit a Honda Civic in north London last July.
Mr McKeown has denied drink-driving and fleeing the scene of an accident.
The Bay City Rollers sold more than 120 million records in the 1970s with hits such as Bye Bye baby and Shang-a-Lang. But McKeown, McGlynn and fellow band members Eric Faulkner, Stuart Wood and brothers Alan and Derek Longmuir were left penniless when the band split up in 1977.
The rockers claim they were ripped off by manager Tam Paton.
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