Pubdate: Mon, 15 Aug 2005
Source: Mirror, The (UK)
Copyright: 2005 The Mirror
Contact:  http://www.mirror.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1161
Author: Graham Brough
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DIANA'S ASTOLOGER ON CANNABIS CHARGE

Princess Diana's astrologer Penny Thornton has been charged with
dealing cannabis.

She claims her home was raided and she was arrested just because she
shares a PO box number with traders who sell cannabis chocolate bars.

Ms Thornton said her arrest was "so ridiculous it was almost
comical".

Officers from Cumbria, where the cannabis seller is based, travelled
to her home in Haslemere, Surrey, to quiz her. She said she was held
in a cell for six hours before being charged.

Ms Thornton, who gave Diana horoscope readings for six years, said it
was "a monumental cock-up worthy of Monty Python".

She has a website and receives her horoscope mail via a PO box in
Huntingdon, Cambs, shared by others. They include a firm which sells
Cannacho on the internet to multiple sclerosis sufferers.

Ms Thornton said: "This is the most staggering incompetence anyone can
imagine. _ I have lived a blameless life, the most I have ever had is
a speeding ticket." She added: "I pay for my PO box number but I have
never been there. I have nothing to do with cannabis.

"Marcus the webmaster told me a week or two before the general
election that there were people using the PO box who supplied cannabis."

She said she was traumatised by the police raid on her home. "My whole
life has stopped, my office was ransacked and my computers, Filofax
and telephones were taken.

"I told my husband I don't want to go back into my study because it
feels like it has been invaded. I can't believe this will ever come to
court."

She has been bailed pending further inquiries and must report to
Penrith police station in Cumbria on September 5.

Police confirmed that they were investigating her.
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