Ex-Environment Agency boss sold drugs for sex with men he met online

HE BOUGHT 'WHOLESALE AMOUNTS' OF TWO ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES

- By MARTIN NAYLOR

A FORMER Director of Operations at the Environment Agency bought and sold drugs to use in “chemsex” with other men.

Nottingham Crown Court heard how, over a four-year period, divorced father-of-two Mark Sitton Kent “offered to administer controlled drugs to others and asked others to inject him”.

Phone evidence showed how the 57-year-old was buying two illegal substances - methamphetamine and GHB - in “wholesale amounts” and selling them to a circle of people he had met on the gay dating app Grindr.

Now he has been spared an immediate prison term with a judge handing him a two-year jail term, suspended for 21 months.

Sentencing, Judge James Sampson said: “For some years, you have been involved in something known as ‘chemsex’ and you offered to supply drugs for these purposes to others and engaged in the activity.

“Be under no illusions, these drugs kill. They have been implicated in the deaths of gay men up and down the country.