Ramsey teenager caught with class A drugs he thought was LSD

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.