Man Jailed For Drugs At Party
29 January 2019, 09:50 | Updated: 29 January 2019, 10:01
A man has been sentenced to four years imprisonment after he was caught with more than £1,000 worth of cash and drugs at the Secret Garden Party in 2017.
27 year old Maxwell Silwano appeared at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday (25 January) after he was found guilty of numerous drugs offences.
The court heard how officers stopped him and two friends because they matched the description of three men who had stolen from a tent two days previous.
Silwano from Lydford Close in Hackney had £350 worth of cocaine, £180 worth of ketamine, £160 worth of MDMA and £375 in cash.
He was sentenced to three-and-a-half years imprisonment for two counts of possession of a class A drug with intent to supply and possession of a class B drug with intent to supply.
He was also handed an extra six months imprisonment, to run consecutively, for a conviction for possession of a knife in Wood Green, North London, and all the sentences will run consecutively with a four-year sentence he received for attempted robbery in November at Bristol Crown Court.
Sgt Eliot Ducket said: "Drugs can have devastating effects on people's lives and his sentence reflects how seriously we and the courts take offences like these.
"Silwano travelled up from London specifically to target festivalgoers and I hope this serves as a deterrent to anybody with similar ideas."
