Mansfield nightclub staff detained cocaine user

Lee Smith was detained at the Late Lounge, on Leeming Street, until police arrived at 9pm, on December 16.

In police interview he said he had bought £40 of the drug from a friend in Rotherham, but would not name him.

Smith, 22, of Chapel Street, Thunscoe, admitted possession of the Class A drug when he appeared at Mansfield Magistrates Court, on Wednesday.

Nigel Boddy, mitigating, said his client “deeply regretted” what he had done.

“It was a very tiny quantity of cocaine that was obviously for personal use,” he said.

Smith, now unemployed, was fined £40, and ordered to pay £85 court costs and a £15 victim surcharge.