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published on April 27, 2001 THE first man to be convicted for making crop circles has not worked for six months because the police still have his computer. Matthew Williams, 29, of Bourton Lane, Bishops Cannings, told Kennet Magistrates Court he had been on benefit since last October as he has been unable to work as a self-employed video editor since the police took away his computer and all its peripheral equipment. Williams was fined £100 with £40 costs on November 11 after admitting creating a seven-pointed star in a field at West Overton, near Marlborough last August. This week he appeared before the bench charged with possessing illegal A-class drugs??? Lois Colley, prosecuting, told magistrates at Devizes on Monday that while police were searching Williams' home for evidence on the criminal damage charges, they found a tin box containing a number of substances. They were sent for examination at the Forensic Science Laboratory which confirmed there were 354 milligrammes of MDMA or Ecstasy, 106.29mg of magic mushroom or psilocybin and 17 squares of material impregnated with LSD. Stephen Clifford, defending, said because of the unusual circumstances surrounding the charges he was inviting the magistrates to impose a conditional discharge. He said Williams had had a number of foreign visitors staying with him and one had left the drugs because he couldn't take them out of the country. He put them in the medicine cabinet in the kitchen and forgot about them. Mr Clifford said: ÒHe should have got rid of them or taken them to the authorities. He did neither." Williams was fined £100 with £25 costs and magistrates ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the drugs. After the case, Williams said he had been in touch with CID officers to ask when he might get his computer back. "They said I could get it back fairly soon but there's a lot of legal process surrounding these things. Not having it has affected my ability to work." Back to 2001 index |
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