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UK: Author to fight son's school ban
Press & Journal, Aberdeen Monday 27 Jan 2003 THE son of real-life Castaway Lacy Irvine has been expelled from Gordonstoun public school over an alleged drugs offence. Magnus, 17, was only two terms away from completing his sixth-form studies at the school which can count the Prince of Wales as a former pupil. But mother-of-three Ms Irvin e, who spent a year on a desert island with author Gerald Kingsley 17 years ago, has vowed to fight the ban. The writer, whose book Castaway was turned into a film starring Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe, claimed her son had been unfairly treated. Ms Irvine said her oldest son had been caught ordering cannabis for a friend of hers. She said: "Gordonstoun targeted him after I spoke to the school about my concerns that pupils were buying drugs off the Internet. They intercepted his mail and found £50 worth of cannabis inside. "I admit he did order it but it was not for him. It was for an adult friend of mine who is planning to ask the head to reverse his decision." Ms Irvine, who has two other sons, Benji and Joe, shot to fame when s he answered Gerald Kinglsey's newspaper advertisement for a partner to join him for a year on a desert island. The pair spent a year on the Pacific island of Turn, and she later took her children to live for a year on Pigeon Island, in the farthes t comer of the Solomons. Police confirmed last night a teenage boy had been thrown out of the school but refused to identify him. Officials at the school refused to comment.
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