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September 5, 2008 | By Sotek | 3 Comments
BBC is reporting that drum'n'bass legend, Radio 1 DJ and notorious troublemaker Grooverider (aka Raymond Bingham) has been pardoned by the Dubai Royal Family and released from prison after serving half of a four year sentence for drug possession charges.
According to Guardian, on November 23 last year Bingham was arrested at Dubai International Airport after police found a small transparent bag containing 2.16 grams of cannabis and a pornographic DVD in his luggage, hours before a sold-out show at a local superclub The Lodge.
Grooverider released from prison [BBC]
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I guess he won't be coming back to Dubai any time soon then...
Urm... small point.
How can he have served half of a 4 yr sentence (which would be 2 years) when we was in prison for less than a year.
Fuck this and fuck the Dubai Royal Family! There is no need to travel to places where you can't have a beer at the beach in your boxershorts and surf the net freely on your PDA. Forget Dubai and forget the UAE.
They think they can attract people with parties and huge buildings but I am sure most people know that is just to deviate people form the fact that UAE is as much fun as mouthful of dry sand.
More from the Guardian:
"Earlier this month the charity Fair Trials International warned that travellers were falling foul of the tough regime at Dubai airport. It highlighted cases including that of Keith Brown, who was arrested after a rolled up cigarette was discovered in the sole of his shoe. He was charged with possession of 0.003g of cannabis and jailed for four years.
Fair Trials added that it had had reports of a Swiss national who was sentenced to four years in prison in the UAE after three poppy seeds from a bread roll were found on his clothes."
Anyone sane enough to go there despite this load of horse shit rules is either really naive or needs to be taught a lesson. People! Forget fucking UAE!