Son of a drugs counsellor sold ecstasy and cannabis at a Devon music festival
Luke Foster took cannabis and ecstasy to the Glas-Denbury festival near Newton Abbot, Exeter Crown Court heard
Luke Foster took cannabis and ecstasy to the Glas-Denbury festival near Newton Abbot, Exeter Crown Court heard
A drug dealer who took ecstasy and cannabis to a Devon music festival was hunted down by bouncers after a girl became ill and needed medical treatment.
Luke Foster took drugs to the Glas-Denbury festival near Newton Abbot last summer to share with his friends but sold some after word spread around the site he had a surplus.
He was found with small amounts of cannabis and a personal supply of ecstasy, and police recovered £270 cash at the scene and another £830 when they searched his home in Ashburton.
Foster is the son of a drugs counsellor who was spared jail to give him a chance to address his own substance abuse problems at a rehabilitation centre.
Foster, aged 21, of Westabrook, Ashburton, admitted possession of cannabis with intent to supply, simple possession of ecstasy, and having criminal property.
He was jailed for eight months, suspended for a year and ordered to receive drug rehabilitation as part of 12 months' supervision and pay £420 costs.
Recorder Rufus Taylor told him: “This is your chance to nip this in the bud right now. I know that you want to do it and have asked for help.
“You were at the Glas-Denbury festival last June when a girl became ill and you were pointed out to bouncers, arrested by the police and found with drugs.
“You made full admissions that you went with the intention of simply of dealing to friends, but word got out and you supplied to others at the festival.”
Beth Heaton, prosecuting, said police were called to the event at Fairfield Farm, Denbury, by security staff and Foster was found with 940 milligrams of ecstasy, 4.9 grams of cannabis and £270 cash.
Officers searched his home and found £830 cash in the bedroom which he admitted came from drug dealing. He told police he started dealing after losing his job a month earlier.
William Parkhill, defending, said Foster is keen to address his own drug problem and hopes to go to a Christian-run residential centre in Birmingham which is in the same group as another which is managed by Foster’s father in Manchester.
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