A REVELLER from Gwynedd tried but failed to smuggle £1,400 worth of ketamine in his underpants past sniffer dogs at Creamfields.

Cai Bullard ignored all the warning signs and amnesty bins at the Daresbury electronic dance music festival’s north gate entrance on Friday, August 25, last year.

Police found 35 snap bags in total, all weighing around one gram, hidden inside a moisturiser bottle, a hair gel container and his underpants. 

The drugs were seized, the 23-year-old was thrown out of the festival, and he was ordered to report to the police station for an interview.

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When questioned, he gave a prepared statement admitting that the drugs were his, but made no comment when asked about his intention to supply them to others.

Appearing at Warrington Magistrates’ Court on August 28, this year, Bullard came clean, pleading guilty to possessing the class B drug with intent to supply it.

The case was sent to Chester Crown Court for sentencing recently.

Defending, Peter Hussey told the court this was the first time Bullard has been in trouble with the police, and it was a ‘massive wake-up call’ for him.  

He added Bullard was from a ‘good family’, has a stable partner of four years, and references from his employed talk of his ‘great potential’.

Passing sentence, judge Steven Everett said: “Drugs sell for a premium at festivals, and the temptation for you to make a good amount of money was well and truly there.

“Coming from a decent background, it must be causing your parents great anguish to see you in crown court halfway across the country.

“But you knew the risks, and you chose to take them.”

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Judge Everett admitted he was ‘astonished’ when he read in the presentence report Bullard still uses ketamine recreationally, adding: “It is very selfish of you.”

The judge sentenced Bullard, of Yr Ala in Pwllheli, north Wales, to eight months in prison, suspended for two years.

He also ordered him to complete 150 hours of unpaid work, and to complete up to 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days.