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UK: Eton Waives The Rules On Drug Expulsions

Ian Cobain

The Times

Monday 14 Jan 2002

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ETON College appears to have bent its own strict rules on drugs to allow Prince Harry to escape expulsion. Until the Eton pupil was caught smoking cannabis, any pupil involved with drugs knew that he faced instant exclusion.

Even boys caught using the drug outside Eton -- as Prince Harry did -- have been expelled as the result of a policy of zero tolerance introduced by John Lewis, the Head Master, who said: "We make it absolutely clear that use, possession or sale will mean forfeiting a place in the school."

However, Mr Lewis is understood to have known since July that Prince Harry had been caught smoking cannabis. He was not available for comment yesterday.

 

 

 

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