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Article: Drugs club boss to appeal ; The jailed owner of the Dance Academy is appealing against his conviction and sentence for allowing the 'rampant' use and sale of Ecstasy in his club.
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- Plymouth Evening Herald, The
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- August 4, 2008
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The jailed owner of the Dance Academy is appealing against his
conviction and sentence for allowing the 'rampant' use and sale of
Ecstasy in his club.
Manoucehr Bahmanzadeh, 51, has lodged the appeal via his
solicitors at the Court of Appeal in The Strand, London.
Bahmanzadeh was sentenced to nine years in jail on July 21
following a lengthy trial at Plymouth Crown Court. He was found
guilty by the jury, as was co-defendent Tom Costelloe, and was
sentenced by Judge Francis Gilbert QC.
Judge Gilbert "expressly" rejected mitigating submissions and
said he and Costelloe "deliberately promoted" the premises to be
used for the supply of the Class A drug "to better the club's
reputation and ...