Army Major's Daughter Caught With Party Drugs At Nightclub

An Army Major's graduate daughter was caught with twenty wraps of of an ecstasy-type drug after travelling from her sleepy Norfolk town to party with pals in London.

Danielle Taylor, 23, of The Old Police House, Fakenham Road, Dereham pleaded guilty to possessing MDMA - known as 'Molly' - at the landmark Electric Brixton club, Town Hall Parade, Brixton.

"I wouldn't know where to look for them in Norfolk," she told Camberwell Green Magistrates Court this week. "I tried it in the first year of university five years ago and had it quite a few times in my first year."

The prosecution charged her with intending to supply the drug, but she was cleared of this more serious charge and was conditionally discharged for six months.

Now an intern with a Mayfair interior designer Taylor- whose father served in the Royal Fusiliers - had travelled to the capital for the Notting Hill Carnival.

"I live in a little village, it's quite small. Around eight-hundred people live there."

She began the weekend by visiting her boyfriend, who is studying medicine at the University of Manchester.

"I bought MDMA there. It is very easy to get hold of," explained the Birmingham City University graduate.

"It was the first time we had been to the Notting Hill Carnival and the Electric Brixton. It was our first big night out in London."

She had paid £80 for the powdered drugs and split them into tiny wraps using cigarette filters.

"If you pre-organise it you have a better understanding of what you have taken.

"You can take it and see what effect it has on you and make a decision on that.

"I would have taken five or seven. The night was going on quite late and then there was the next day at the carnival."

Explaining why she bought the drugs after not taking them for a while Taylor told the court: "I think it was the excitement of coming down to London, going to the carnival and going on a night out.

"It was a place that stays open late and I thought: 'Why not?'"

The court heard Taylor was searched by a female security guard as she entered the club after midnight and a 'box-like object' was found in her bra strap.

She refused four times to remove it, but eventually staff examined the contents and called the police.

Taylor told the police. "The drugs are MD. I must take responsibility for my actions."

District Judge Ann Sawetz told her: "You are not a drug dealer and were not drug-dealing.

"I hope you have now lost interest, I bet your dad hopes so. It could effect your brain or you could be dead.

"Spend your money on something sensible."