The former Conservative MP Crispin Blunt has pleaded guilty to 4 costs of possession of medication together with hashish and crystal meth.
The 65-year-old former justice minister appeared at Westminster magistrates court docket on Wednesday to admit 4 medication costs, which stem from a raid on his house in Horley, Surrey, in October 2023.
Blunt was in possession of the sedative drug GBL, hashish and methamphetamine, which is often generally known as crystal meth. He pleaded guilty to one rely of possessing class A medication and three costs of possession of class B medication.
The medication have been discovered when Blunt, who represented Reigate in parliament between 1997 and 2024, was being investigated on suspicion of rape. After an 18-month investigation, Surrey police introduced in May final yr that there can be no additional motion on the rape allegation due to inadequate proof.
Blunt, who’s representing himself within the prison court docket proceedings, served in David Cameron’s authorities as minister for prisons and youth justice from 2010 to 2012 and went on to chair the overseas affairs committee from 2015 till 2017.
He misplaced the Tory whip in October 2023 when he was first arrested and stood down from parliament on the 2024 basic election.
Prior to getting into politics, Blunt was a graduate of the Sandhurst navy academy and spent greater than a decade as an officer within the British military.
The prosecutor Zarah Dickinson stated Blunt was “polite” and “calm” when his house was raided by police throughout an investigation right into a rape allegation. “This arises from a police investigation into offences alleged to have occurred during a chemsex party at Mr Blunt’s home address in September 2023. No charges were brought on those alleged offences,” she stated, including: “As a result of them, police attended his home address on 25 October 2023.”
She stated Blunt identified the medication, together with crystal meth and GBL, to the officers.
Dickinson stated crystal meth valued at between £200 and £250 was on Blunt’s bedside desk, whereas plastic bottles of a crystal meth and amphetamine combine have been additionally recovered and a syringe containing £200 of GBL was present in a laptop computer bag.
Officers recovered a bag of hashish valued at between £5 and £10, in addition to weighing scales containing powder residue.
