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Article: Drugs trial breached our human rights ; The owner and DJ of the Dance Academy are claiming a major drugs trial which put them both behind bars was a breach of their human rights.
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- Plymouth Evening Herald, The
- Article date:
- October 30, 2008
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The owner and DJ of the Dance Academy are claiming a major drugs
trial which put them both behind bars was a breach of their human
rights.
Manoucehr Bahmanzadeh, 52, and DJ and general manager Tom
Costelloe, 37, have launched a ground-breaking conviction challenge,
arguing they were unfairly tried because they were not allowed to
see undercover police officers giving evidence against them.
They appeared yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice in London
to challenge both their convictions and their sentences.
In July they were found guilty of allowing the drug Ecstasy to be
sold in the popular Union Street venue.
Bahmanzadeh received a nine-year sentence while Costelloe was
jailed for five ...