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.”