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UK: Students bid to free tutor
Daily Post, Cheshire
Friday 27 Sep 2002 STUDENTS at Sir Paul McCartney's fame school have joined the fight to free their lecturer jailed in Japan on drug smuggling charges. Chris Snell, 47, who teaches at Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, was arrested in May this year at Tokyo's Narita airport after arriving on a flight from Switzerland. Customs officials discovered three kilos of cannabis hidden in the lining of the suitcase he was carrying. But he insists thecase was given to him by a musician colleague in Zurich who has since disappeared. The free-lance music producer was travelling to the Japanese capital to work on a reggae music project. The father-of-two, from Croxteth Park, faces up to four years in jail if found guilty of bringing drugs into Japan. Students and ex-students at Lipa insist Mr Snell is innocent and are holding concerts to help pay for his defence. The first is at the Picket, in Hardman Street, tonight. Meike Holzmann, 29, an ex-student and friend of Mr Snell, said: "He would not risk his family and career by doing something like this." Mr Snell's wife Olga, 51, said she was 'really grateful' for the support. The Foreign Office is offering family help.
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