so, true story - In 1991 I had been selling beans for a while. I’d been raided a couple of times but they’d never found anything. The third time they found 2 purple ohms wrapped in a bit of clingfilm stuck between 2 credit cards in my wallet. I had actually forgotten they were there if I’m honest. Like a total twat, rather than just putting my hands up I decided that as I had some form from a couple of years earlier I would go not guilty and I concocted some story about a girl buying 4 trips and putting 2 in my wallet as she didn’t have any pockets but forgetting to retrieve them (terrible i know)
Long story short, defiant to the end it went all the way to Oxford crown Court where I pleaded not guilty to possession of Lysergic acid (street value £6)
The Jury took 30 mins to find me guilty and the Rt. Hon Judge Mead sentenced me to 12 months imprisonment which I did at Shepton Mallet and Dartmoor. I was 25 at the time and I didn’t enjoy it but it wasn’t that bad either. my bottom remained intact throughout and I learned to make a pretty decent homebrew from rice, potatoes, apples, sugar and yeast pinched from the bakery, which helped the time pass.
I’m pretty sure that going back to jail today would be a completely different story.
