Article: Hewitt stands by son arrested on cocaine charge.(Features)

Byline: Tamara Cohen

PATRICIA Hewitt spoke up for her son yesterday after he was charged with possessing cocaine.

Police arrested Nicholas Hewitt Birtles a few yards from the [pounds sterling]1million family home he shares with the ex-Cabinet minister and his father, a senior judge.

Speaking from the three-storey Victorian townhouse, Miss Hewitt denied she was furious with the 21-year-old over the drugs charges.

'Absolutely not,' said the former health secretary, 'And I have no further comment to make.' There was no sign of her son or his father, Judge William Birtles, who has in the past spoken out against drug dealing in their area ...

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