Article: Dance academy trial: Former doorman tells how drugs were let in

A former head doorman of the Dance Academy has told a Plymouth court a man was allowed into the club after being found to be carrying drugs.

Gareth Grimes, who was head doorman at the dance club for several months in 2004, said he introduced a tough regime whereby one in three people entering the Union Street venue were searched.

He described one occasion when he stopped two men and found they were both carrying pills - one had three and the other considerably more.

The normal policy at the club was simply to eject anyone caught with three pills or less, after confiscating the drugs, but Mr Grimes said on this occasion manager Thomas Costelloe asked him to let the man stay.

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