Jagger claimed police set-up

FILES released today have shed new light on Mick Jagger’s run-ins with the police.

Thirty-five years ago, the Rolling Stones frontman accused them of planting drugs on him. The files show an internal inquiry by Scotalnd Yard dismissed the claims, saying Jagger was caught up in “the world of users of dangerous drugs.”

His main witnesses were described as “the dregs of society”, while his girlfriend Marianne Faithful was said to be a “most unreliable person.”

The allegations followed a police raid on Jagger’s home in London’s fashionable Cheyne Walk in Chelsea on May 28 1969, which saw a quantity of cannabis resin seized by officers.

Jagger claimed the raid leader, Robert Constable, had tried to plant some “white powder” on him and later demanded a bribe of £1,000.

The allegations came weeks later after Jagger and Faithful were filming a movie in Australia.

In the midst of shooting, Faithful was rushed to hospital in Sydney with a drugs overdose.

She told the Australian detectives who came to interview her that she “hated coppers” because of her recent experience at the hands of the police in England.

“She elaborated on this, alleging that her recent arrest in England for ‘possession of cannabis’ was a result of a trumped up charge when the chief of the Chelsea drug squad called at the flat she and Jagger occupied and produced some cannabis stating that he would arrest them if they didn’t pay him money,” the Australian police report stated.

Jagger was later fined £200 and ordered to pay 50 guineas costs. An investigation of his claims failed to back them up, and the matter was dropped when the DPP decided no action should be taken.