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Hucknall cautioned over drugs

Nick Paton Walsh

BBC

Saturday 23 Dec 2000


Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall has been cautioned by police for
possessing cocaine and cannabis, it has emerged.

Officers found the class A and class B drugs at the 40-year-old star's
home in Surrey, The Sun newspaper reported. A Surrey police spokesman
said on Friday: "A 40-year-old man was cautioned for an offence."

Police discovered the drugs on 26 November after a woman falsely
accused Hucknall of rape. The woman dropped her claim a day later. But
the singer was arrested and later cautioned at Walton-on-Thames police
station over the drugs, The Sun added.

Hucknall, whose hits includes Holding Back the Years and Fairground,
is believed to have built up a fortune of more than £30m from his
music career and restaurant interests. He is a lifelong Labour Party
supporter and is a party donor, and has been involved in government
think-tanks.

He formed Simply Red in 1984. Over the years the band has had a fluid
line-up, with only Hucknall as the mainstay. They had their first hit
with their cover of Money's Too Tight (To Mention), with Holding Back
the Years becoming number one in the US.

Hucknall parted company with his record label East West earlier this
year, following a lukewarm response to the band's last album Love And
the Russian Winter.

 

 

 

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