Drug charges against Liverpool woman dropped

42-year-old's case closed after police fail to meet deadline

A Liverpool woman accused of drugs offences has had the charges against her dropped after police failed to meet a deadline.

Lindsay Marie Jago, of Caryl Street, appeared at Douglas Courthouse via live video link from the UK.

The 42-year-old had denied possession of ketamine and cannabis with intent to supply and possession of criminal cash and was due to stand trial.

However the prosecutor told the court that, whilst the case had passed the ‘threshold test’, officers had failed to conduct phone analysis on time adding: “They haven’t come up with the full evidence.”

Adding that she’d ‘brought suspicion upon herself’, by being in the company of her co-accused Michael Andrew Fitzsimmons, he formally offered no evidence in the matter.

Fitzsimmons, who is from Huskinson Street in Liverpool, has previously admitted possessing the drugs with intent to supply and having more than £2,000 of criminal cash in his possession.

The 38-year-old was arrested at an Airbnb in Port Erin on 3 October and is awaiting sentencing.