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Millie Elder fighting drug charges in court today

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Thu, 10 Feb 2011 2:16p.m.

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Broadcaster Paul Homes' daughter Millie Elder is fighting drug charges in Auckland District Court today, her lawyer arguing the police search of her car was unlawful.

Elder was arrested in December 2009 after police found cannabis and a methamphetamine pipe in her Mercedes after she and a group of friends were seen drinking in a central Auckland car park.

Elder has pleaded not guilty charges of possession of methamphetamine, cannabis, and a pipe and of obstructing police.

The latter charge arose after she ran away with the car keys from officers who wanted to retrieve a bottle of alcohol from the car.

Her lawyer, Kim Holden, argued the car park was not a public area and therefore exempt from the liquor ban bylaw.

Arresting officer Constable Julian Donaldson said he smelt a strong smell of cannabis upon entering the vehicle, so started a search.

He found about 1g of cannabis wrapped in paper next to the driver's seat, more cannabis in a jacket and a blackened methamphetamine pipe in Elder's handbag, which was found to contain traces of methamphetamine.

Elder told the officers it was all hers, Mr Donaldson said.

Elder was expected to give evidence before Judge Philippa Cunningham later today.

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27 Feb 2011 09:39p.m.

urban druid wrote:

Hi GoToJail, What's Millie has actually done wrong?

Whether she cares to stop using meth and cannabis is probably her business, I don't see what it has to do with police?

Who has she harmed in her criminal career thus far?

If there is an abscence of any real problems in her life, do you feel we should perhaps let alone her private motor car & personal handbag?

Have the Police anything better to do than roll around arresting people for things that cannot be described as genuine criminal acts?

People usually choose to give up drugs of their own accord. There is a famous NZ story about Mr. Williams, who appeared in a drugs documentary some years ago.

Bill liked opiates, and had been in the habit of visiting a semi-tolerated local opium den, to smoke opium...

Soon the police closed the dens down and Mr. Williams found that his taste for opiates was more powerful than his resistance to commit criminal acts. He and others would go on crime road trips north of Auckland, checking into small towns and raiding the local chemist of its supplies...

Soon Bill came to the attention of authorities and spent some time incarcerated before he became part of a clinical study run by health professionals, who wanted to see what would happen in peoples live's if they had ready access to the morphine they sought, free of charge...

Bill had the Australasian record for the most morphine consumed by a patient on a daily basis, fifteen, 30mg ampoules a day, or enough to kill several people without any tolerance to its respiratory depressing effects...

It seems that once Bill had the object of his desire, as much as he desired, the shine quickly tarnished, and Mr. Williams chose to quit the habit, withdraw from the trial, and attend church instead.

Druggies are not somebody else. They are all of us to varying degrees, for even teatotallers are consuming a beverage with a drug in it.

Alcohol misuse causes the most harm.

Hope you are OK Millie:)

10 Feb 2011 03:23p.m.

GoToJail wrote:

When is this druggie going to be locked up? And who cares if it WAS private property - she had drugs in her possession! You are a spoilt brat, Millie, and while your Dad is keeping you out of jail you will never learn.

10 Feb 2011 03:12p.m.

Wolfman wrote:

Why do they bother charging her, we all know the outcome before any court appearance, one law for the rich, and an entirely different law for the poor.

10 Feb 2011 02:33p.m.

Jason wrote:

SO WHAT!! SERIOUSLY, DO YOU CALL THAT NEWS?