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Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3395661.ece

The Radio 1 DJ Grooverider has been sentenced to a four-year prison term in Dubai after admitting to carrying cannabis into the country.

Grooverider – whose real name is Raymond Bingham – told judges at previous court appearance: “The drugs were in my possession and I forgot I had them in my trousers.”

He was convicted yesterday and given the minimum sentence for drug possession in the United Arab Emirates, where deeply conservative laws sometimes collide with the liberal values of the millions of tourists who visit each year.

Grooverider’s lawyers had tried to argue in his defence that he was unaware of the laws.

The 40-year-old DJ, who co-hosts the weekly BBC Radio 1 drum-and bass programme Fabio and Grooverider, was arrested at Dubai airport on November 23, with 2.16 grams of cannabis in his pockets just hours before he was due to play a sold-out show at a popular nightclub.

“I just want this to end and to never come back. It was a small amount. Back home I would not even get prosecuted,” he previously stated, in a published interview from jail.

A BBC spokesman said: “He made a serious mistake and is paying a very high price.” Grooverider has been off the air since his arrest last November.

Although not officially suspended by Radio 1 it is understood that the BBC is not paying him a salary, as the DJ is paid for each show he presents. Bingham has provided his own legal representation.

Drugs are strictly banned in the United Arab Emirates, however there have been several high-profile cases of foreigners being jailed for smuggling small amounts into the country.

A British tourist, Keith Brown, spent four years in jail for the possession of 0.002 grams of cannabis. Bert Tatham, a Canadian UN official who advised the Afghan government was also jailed for carrying 0.5 grams of hashish and two poppy seeds into the country.

The rulers of Dubai later issued Mr Tatham a rare pardon, deporting him to Canada. Highlighting a new crackdown on drug smuggling, the UAE recently installed new drug-sensitive detecting equipment in its airports.

Grooverider, who made his name DJing at illegal warehouse parties, is recognised as a pioneer of the abrasive style of dance music known as drum and bass.

He is a recording artist and record label owner in his own right and an in-demand DJ on the international club circuit. His colleague Fabio will continue to present the Radio 1 show in his absence.

The former Radio 1 DJ Kevin Greening died of a heart attack last year, aged 44, after taking large quantities of cocaine, ecstasy and the drug GHB.


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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: Bridgeburner]
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ugh...seriously - Fuck Dubai. They are trying to make it a huge tourism destination, but Arabs are still living in the dark ages. Fuck them

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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: Bridgeburner]
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b0red5tiff said:
Grooverider, who made his name DJing at illegal warehouse parties, is recognised as a pioneer of the abrasive style of dance music known as drum and bass.


We all know those drum and bass kids... gathering in mass in illegal groupings and inspiring negative social influence with there mosh-based happiness-depleting violence-inducing abrasive dance music...


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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: SDP]
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Well its a good thing they got him behind bars. 2.16 grams is a lot of Cannabis! :rolleyes:


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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: frisky_]
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fucking nuts...


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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: frisky_]
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frisky_ said:
Well its a good thing they got him behind bars. 2.16 grams is a lot of Cannabis! :rolleyes:


Using Americas crime:punishment ratio if 0.002g is possession 2.16 is heavy trafficking!


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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: SDP]
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However ridiculous the laws are...


No one "forgets" that they had a 2 gram sack in their pocket when getting on a plane. Well, I don't, anyway. Before the checkpoint when I get there, I'm going through my pockets to make sure I have no contraband...


but that poor bastard with the .0002 or whatever it was...thats insane, and I don't understand how that miniscule of an amount can be detected at all, even if he set off some weird alarm or something, how are you going to see it and make that arrest?

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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: Boom]
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Boom said:
However ridiculous the laws are...


No one "forgets" that they had a 2 gram sack in their pocket when getting on a plane. Well, I don't, anyway. Before the checkpoint when I get there, I'm going through my pockets to make sure I have no contraband...


but that poor bastard with the .0002 or whatever it was...thats insane, and I don't understand how that miniscule of an amount can be detected at all, even if he set off some weird alarm or something, how are you going to see it and make that arrest?


I read about this same tourist a few weeks ago, apparently they found the 0.002 gram trace of weed on the bottom of his shoe. The article said that it weighed less than a grain of sugar, and was invisible to the naked eye, how they managed to find it I don't know.

I also remember some kind of producer was arrested in the UAE around a year ago for possession of (I think it was) 2 grams of coke, originally received the death penalty, had the sentenced reduced to 4 years, and ended up being pardoned. Crazy country.

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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: Boom]
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Sure, but regardless it seems like UAE is not somewhere anyone should be going right now. In fact, the State Department of both the US and the UK have issued warnings to travelers regarding this extreme drug enforcement situation. When the UAE "customs" officials are looking with electron microscopes at the soles of your shoes...well, it's pretty much out of your hands at that point.

AVOID!

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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: champ]
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the death penalty for 2 grams of coke?! holy shit thats wack. people dont get the death penalty for going on a shooting spree half the time. note too self never go too the uae.


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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: Boom]
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Boom said:
ugh...seriously - Fuck Dubai. They are trying to make it a huge tourism destination, but Arabs are still living in the dark ages. Fuck them


Fuck Arabs? Fuck You.

you're right the laws are retarded, but that place is sicker than any US city hands down


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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: ke1n]
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I don't see him saying anywhere to "fuck" Arabs altogether. Just the city of Dubai :puke:

Edited by Ashford420 (02/19/08 05:21 PM)

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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: Ashford420]
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Fuck the UAE

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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: Event]
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#1 dnb DJ is in jail for 4 years...

that does a LOT for the scene, let me tell ya.

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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: large_dose]
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What was I about to type? Damned alcohol.

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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: Ojom]
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Ojom said:
What was I about to type? Damned alcohol.


Maybe something about how Grooverider isn't the #1 d&b dj?

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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: monkeyheaven]
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Grooverider is a legend, and I hope, really hope people will be trying to get him out of that hellhole.


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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: Visionary Tools]
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your a dip-shit if you bring any drug on a plane. Especially if your going to the UAE. I think it would be hard to bring drugs on a plane and not know about it .

On another note, that would be a pretty easy way to assassinate someone. Just hide half an ounce of heroin in there bag when there going to the UEA.

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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: biggysmall]
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Quote:
On another note, that would be a pretty easy way to assassinate someone. Just hide half an ounce of heroin in there bag when there going to the UEA.



or like a 10 strip of acid, its cheeper and they will still probably kill you for it.


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Re: Radio 1 DJ Grooverider given four-year jail term for cannabis smuggling [Re: nk pakelika]
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ke1n said:

you're right the laws are retarded, but that place is sicker than any US city hands down



whatever dude. The UAE is a corrupt country and Dubai is a center for the corrupt elite. It makes me sick that we throw away billions on war and building in other countries when there is so much that this country needs.
Besides, anyplace without herb sucks ass.

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