Eighteen-year-old was carrying four tablets of 'Doc'
A court’s heard a teenager who thought he had four tablets of LSD actually had an entirely different drug.
Eighteen-year-old Matthew John George Williams, of May Hill in Ramsey, appeared before magistrates at Douglas Courthouse through a live link from the Isle of Man Prison.
He admitted possessing the class A drug dimethoxy chloroamphetamine on 12 May last year.
Prosecution advocate Rachel Braidwood told the hearing police stopped Williams just before 11.30pm on Parliament Street in Ramsey.
Officers carried out a drugs search and found a plastic bag containing four tablets in his pocket.
Williams said he’d forgotten he had them and told officers they were LSD – but forensic tests showed they were a different drug nicknamed “Doc”.
He was fined £500 and ordered to pay £50 towards prosecution costs.
But, noting Williams was in custody, magistrates ordered him to serve 30 days in lieu of the money.
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