Article: 'No problem' to buy drug at club ; An undercover cop has told a Crown court jury how he had 'no problem' in buying the illicit drug ecstasy at the former Dance Academy club in Plymouth's Union Street.

An undercover cop has told a Crown court jury how he had 'no problem' in buying the illicit drug ecstasy at the former Dance Academy club in Plymouth's Union Street.

The police officer, identified only as Mark, said on three separate occasions in January and February 2006 he had bought the class A drug from three different people inside the club.

On the first occasion he was even 'touted' by a drug dealer as he queued outside to go into the club, Plymouth Crown Court heard.

He was among a number of undercover officers sent in to the Dance Academy over a number of months to gather evidence of drug-dealing. The prosecution in the trial of four men has claimed the blatant sale of ecstasy was ...

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