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Article: 'You can't stop people taking drugs' ; The former manager and DJ of the Dance Academy said the only sure way to stop drugs being smuggled into the venue would have been to "get everyone to strip naked at the front door".
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- Plymouth Evening Herald, The
- Article date:
- June 24, 2008
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The former manager and DJ of the Dance Academy said the only sure
way to stop drugs being smuggled into the venue would have been to
"get everyone to strip naked at the front door".
Tom Costelloe was responding in exasperation at Plymouth Crown
Court to cross examination by prosecuting barrister Geoffrey Mercer,
QC, who questioned him over his statement to police about "fighting
a losing battle".
Costelloe, of Westminster Close, Honiton, said the comment was
about clubbers who would hide drugs such as ecstasy "where you can't
find it".
He said: "That's a losing battle, is it not? What were we
expected to do? Get everyone to strip naked at the front door?
"I'm just being honest with you - ...