MDMA dealer, 22, admits cocaine and ketamine offences after Mutiny Festival deaths investigation

Dressed in a blue two-piece suit Lee Harvey, 22, spoke only to confirm his identity and guilty pleas to the offences involving class A and B drugs.

Harvey admitted three charges – being concerned in the supply of cocaine, MDMA and ketamine between April 3 in 2017 and May 29, 2018.

It comes after police arrested Harvey during an investigation launched after the drug deaths of 20-year-old Tommy Cowan and 18-year-old Georgia Jones.

The pair died on the first evening of Mutiny Festival at King George V playing fields on May 26, 2018. Charges against Harvey do not relate to supplying drugs at Mutiny.

Paul Casey, for Harvey, told Portsmouth Crown Court his client understands ‘custody is virtually inevitable in this case’.

Harvey, of Owslebury Grove, Leigh Park, was remanded on bail with an electronically-tagged curfew between 9pm and 6am.

This means some of the time spent on bail will be deducted from any prison sentence.

Mr Casey said letters from Harvey’s parents will be offered in mitigation but did not ask for a probation report on his client.

Adjourning the case, judge David Melville QC said: ‘Mr Harvey you must return for sentence in four weeks from now, which is going to be March 23.’

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Inquests previously heard the pair died after taking ‘Silver Audi’ MDMA pills on May 26, the first day of the 2018 festival, held in King George V Playing Fields.

Dad-of-one Tommy was praised as a ‘brilliant’ dad by his own father Damian Cowan. Care worker Georgia’s mother Janine Milburn launched a drugs campaign following her daughter’s death.

Meanwhile, four other people arrested in the wake of Tommy and Georgia’s deaths have been told they face no further action.