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Article: Dance academy trial: Former doorman tells how drugs were let in
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- Plymouth Evening Herald, The
- Article date:
- June 7, 2008
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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.
Following the ...