Creamfields festivalgoer tried to sneak in drugs for dealer boyfriend

Mia Jenson has been handed a two-year suspended sentence after attempting to take around £6,500 worth of cocaine, MDMA and ketamine into Creamfields.

The 20-year-old claims she was forced to do so by her boyfriend, who intended to sell them at the festival where two people have died in the last eight years as a result of drug abuse.

Judge Steven Everett said: “For about six years you had been put upon my a boyfriend who undoubtedly controlled you and got you into this terrible mess where you used drugs.

“At Creamfields, he had effectively coerced you into taking those drugs.

“You physically, weren’t going to sell those drugs.

“But you knew he was going to sell them.

“We deal with around about 60 to 100 cases from this festival each year.”

Jenson was stopped by a police dog when trying to enter the festival (Image: Cheshire Police)

Shannon Stewart, prosecuting, explained that Jenson had a ‘chronic addiction’ to ketamine and was in a relationship with a drug dealer referred to in court only as Gary.

On August 26, 2023, Gary asked then 19-year-old Jenson to take two chewing gum tubs filled with drugs into Creamfields through the production entrance, where searches are not carried out.

However, upon realising she did not have the necessary wristband to get in through this entrance, Jenson tried to make her way to the main entrance but was stopped by a sniffer dog on the way.

She claims she could not find an amnesty bin to dispose of the drugs.

Judge Everett rejected this idea, as well as Jenson's claim that that she thought the capsules only contained cannabis and ketamine.

What they did contain was 175 pink tablets of MDMA, 14 bags of ecstasy in powder form weighing a total of 6.93g, 36 bags of cocaine weighing 16.3g, and 29 bags of ketamine, weighing around 46g.

In total, this added up to between £6,170 and £6,530 worth of illegal drugs.

Ms Stewart added that messages were found on Jenson’s seized phone relating to drug dealing, although these were from an Instagram account connected to Gary.

Zahra Baqri, defending, said Jenson was ‘controlled’ by her partner, whom she met when she started taking drugs age just 13.

“The relationship was toxic,” Miss Baqri said.

“Whilst in that relationship she was obsessed. She felt she had to do everything he asked of her.

“People have, throughout her young life, taken advantage of her. She was desperate for the love and attention she felt Gary gave her.”

Miss Baqri added that Jenson suffers from depression and has attempted to take her own life on multiple occasions.

She also cares for her grandparents, who have both been diagnosed with terminal cancer, as well as a younger sister.

Since the incident at Creamfields, she has cut herself off from Gary and largely stayed away from drugs, as well as enrolling on an elderly nursing course.

Taking all this into account, Judge Everett sentenced Jenson, of Finch Lane in Liverpool, to two years, suspended for 24 months.

He also ordered her to complete a six-month drug rehabilitation requirement and a six-month mental health treatment.

He said: “This is your real chance. You can make something of yourself. I don’t believe for a second you are a lost cause.”