File reveals police view of drug squad raid on Keith Richards

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For the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, this was his most famous drugs bust. He faced 25 charges in all, but in the true piratical spirit of rock'n'roll he walked away with just a £250 fine because it was obvious even to the judge that the police were trying to stitch him up.

That, at least, is the account Richards gives of his arrest in his recently-published memoir, Life. Johnny Depp may have modelled his portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean series on Richards, but the account in the Metropolitan police file of the raid, released this week by the National Archives, casts him in a somewhat less heroic role.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/02/keith-richards-drugs-raid

Fascinating, particularly that possession of a revolver and shotgun without a licence was considered a minor offence in 1973. Slightly different now.