Mutiny Festival ended in tragedy despite police warnings

Friends and relatives gather in Havant, Hampshire, on Monday to release balloons in the memory of Tommy Cowan and Georgia Jones, who died after attending Mutiny Festival in Portsmouth
Friends and relatives gather in Havant, Hampshire, on Monday to release balloons in the memory of Tommy Cowan and Georgia Jones, who died after attending Mutiny Festival in Portsmouth
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A festival where two people died after taking ecstasy has seen a catalogue of drug incidents, sexual assaults and children gaining entry, according to a damning police report.

Officers demanded Mutiny Festival’s licence was reviewed last year after they found the organisers’ emergency team was “not fit for purpose” following the discovery of a group dealing drugs.

Georgia Jones, 18
Georgia Jones, 18
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At this year’s event in Portsmouth, Tommy Cowan, 20, and Georgia Jones, 18, died on Saturday and another 13 festival-goers were taken to hospital. Two men aged 20 and one aged 22 were arrested and released under investigation at the weekend. A man and woman, both 21, were arrested yesterday on suspicion of the supply of class A drugs.

In the 2017 report, Hampshire Constabulary detailed several alleged