Arrests made over Mutiny Festival deaths

Hampshire Constabulary has arrested three suspected drug dealers after two people lost their lives at last weekend’s Mutiny Festival in Portsmouth, UK.

Promoter Mutiny in the Park – which made the decision to cancel the second day of the event, following the deaths on Saturday 26 May – says it was made “aware of a dangerous high-strength or bad-batch substance on site”, and urged festivalgoers “not to take any substances whatsoever”.

The deceased, later named as 20-year-old Tommy Cowan and 18-year-old Georgia Jones, are believed to have fallen ill after taking high-strength ‘Green Heineken’ ecstasy pills, according to local media. Both died at Queen Alexandra Hospital, say police.

Three men, two aged 20 and one aged 22, have been arrested on suspicion of supplying class-A drugs, and…

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