Police to probe Kate Moss drug claims

[dhinojosa]

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- British police will investigate newspaper reports that supermodel Kate Moss took illegal drugs, London's Scotland Yard said on Wednesday, as a second fashion house parted ways with the 31-year-old over the scandal.

The police inquiry comes after the Daily Mirror newspaper printed pictures of the London-born model that the British tabloid said showed her snorting cocaine.

In another setback for one of the world's most famous fashion figures, British retailer Burberry said it had ditched plans to work with Moss this year due to the controversy.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/21/kate.moss.reut/index.html

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Was wondering how whe stayed so "slim".....

[mattclearing]

2. Not to knock the OP, but who cares?

Why is Scotland Yard after this? Why must CNN report it?

Did the National Enquirer not have the situation under control?

[dhinojosa]

5. I don't know why Scotland Yard is after this...

that is the messed up thing out of all this.

[mattclearing]

8. It's not possible to prove that something in a picture is real.

There's no way to prove guilt without serious invasion of privacy (drug testing).

Don't they have some terrorists to chase or something?

[MalibuChloe]

3. why would the police investigate it?

can you arrest someone for using drugs in the past? odd.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Because if they don't, they have to give up arresting anyone for cocaine

They have photographs of her sniffing something - if they ignore that, then people will say the they won't touch rich and famous people. So they have to investigate, because they've been told to treat cocaine as an illegal drug.

[speedingbullet]

10. "Dry" Drug Case

I have to reveal some of my sordid past. As a young prosecutor several years out of law school, I helped my boss in obtaining what was believed to be our states first "dry drug case" conviction. A dry drug case is one where there are no drugs to test and the identity of the substance is proved by circumstantial evidence.

It would probably require someone to testify that he or she was an experienced drug user, that he or she used the drugs with Kate Moss and give an opinion that this was cocaine. It would usually require some degree of betrayal by a friend or associate. For the lawyers out there this was (way) before Daubert.

Our case required lots of work and in hind sight was something of a witch hunt. On a sweetly ironic note, my boss loaned a bike to our snitch who stole it after the trial.

[pinniped]

4. This is as silly as the fbi guys becoming porn police.

Are they gonna demand a P sample?

[dhinojosa]

6. BTW; to admin: I hope you can keep; this is more of a witchhunt

and not a celebrity story.

[EC]

7. And then what? They can't arrest her unless they catch her

with the stuff...This just amounts to character assasination, she should sue them for harming her carreer, she was just dropped as a spokeswoman for a Swedish clothing chain (Hennes & Mauritz)where they hired her to launch the new Stella McCartney line because she admitted to it...That's just dumb, will Stella drop her Dad for drug use too?

[defiant1]

11. Tell you what....

I'll save the British police a ton of time, and probe Kate Moss myself.

:thumbsup:

[tonekat]

12. Are they going to send a cop back in time to arrest her?

...in the act? Seriously, who cares, I mean, a model having used drugs?
I'm shocked, shocked!