A police officer has been convicted of passing confidential information to his cocaine-taking wife and her drug dealer in return for free drugs and money.
Pc Mark Bohannan, passed on information that allowed Syed Imtiaz Ahmed …

Ecstasy was responsible for the major drug scare of the 90s. Yet the death of Leah Betts did little to deter the public, with demand and supply rising throughout the next decade until pills cost …

Repeated use of the drug popularly known as “ecstasy” significantly raises the risk of developing sleep apnea in otherwise healthy young adults with no other known risk factors for the sleep disturbance, a new study …

British teenager Scarlett Keeling was drugged and sexually assaulted before she died, police in Goa, India, say.
The 15-year-old girl, from Bideford, Devon, was found dead on a beach in Anjuna, Goa, last month.
Placido Carvalho was …

A man from Londonderry has been remanded in custody following the seizure of £2m worth of drugs.
Police found eight kilograms of heroin and 210,000 suspected ecstasy tablets in a lorry in Londonderry on Saturday.
Sean Doherty, …

A “fun loving” woman who hoped to become a police officer, died of a drugs overdose, a coroner has ruled.
Katie Jones, aged 20, and from Henllan, Denbighshire, collapsed at the Kendal Calling music festival in …

A man from Merseyside has been charged with importing cocaine and ecstasy into the Isle of Man.
The island’s drug trafficking unit seized the Class A drugs, worth an estimated £65,000, at the Sea Terminal in …

A haul of suspected class A drugs has been seized by the police drug squad on the outskirts of west Belfast.
A police spokesperson said officers acting on “intelligence-led information” discovered the drugs in Poleglass on …

A gang which flooded Moray with drugs has been jailed for a total of 24 years after being thwarted by a major undercover police operation.
William Kelbie, 39, Donald Stewart, 36, Owen Gorman, 41, and Stephen …

Australian police say they have busted an international drugs ring and seized what they describe as the largest single haul of the drug ecstasy.
Sixteen people were arrested across Australia, with further raids expected in Belgium, …

A drug dealer in the Scottish Borders has been jailed for a total of two years and four months.
Arthur Collin, 38, of Eyemouth, admitted being concerned in the supply of ecstasy and amphetamines at his …

A former soldier has been jailed for six months after being found with nearly 150 ecstasy tablets.
Andrew Shaw, 21, was in the process of formally leaving the Black Watch when he was caught during a …

A woman arrested after cocaine and ecstasy worth £30,000 were found in a house in Cambridgeshire has been cleared of possession of drugs.
Nicola Naraine, 32, of Whittlesey, was found not guilty of possessing Class A …

A Norfolk couple who led a lavish lifestyle funded by drug dealing have been ordered to pay £35,000 after being handed a confiscation order.
Norwich Crown Court heard how Elaine Helguson, 59, and Edwin Tagg, 60, …

Three people have been arrested following a drugs raid in Telford, Shropshire.
Officers seized ecstasy tablets and cannabis from a house on Waltondale in Woodside on 28 December.
Police estimate the drugs would have had a street …

Police used cat biscuits to trap a gang of drug dealers who were caught with about 200,000 ecstasy tablets.
Seven Newport men were jailed at the city’s crown court for conspiring to supply ecstasy after drugs …

Why are we asking this now?
Because the outspoken chief constable of North Wales, Richard Brunstrom, has reignited the debate over the legalisation of drugs by saying that Ecstasy, used mainly in clubs and at raves, …

A man sentenced in his absence to 18 years in jail in 2002 for his role in a £1m ecstasy smuggling ring has been found shot dead in Amsterdam.
Simon Cowmeadow, 40, was killed by a …

Fears that poisonous ecstasy tablets were about to be sold prompted police to move against an allegedly criminal gang, a court has heard.
Drugs squad detectives believe the gang were supplying ecstasy, cocaine and amphetamines at …

A £500,000 drugs haul has been seized by police officers in a raid on a car in Central Scotland.
The “substantial” find includes heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, ecstasy and cannabis resin.
It was discovered by officers when they …