One man has died after taking drugs at a music festival in Cumbria.
I think me and Chris had took two each.
Everyone else had taken one.
Christian went into, like, cardiac arrest.
Simon was the one that went and bought the drugs.
It could have been anyone in the group.
"Oh, my God, I've got so many people into trouble. What if Simon
"gets into trouble?" I was placed under arrest
for conspiracy with intent to supply a Class A drug.
I could be going away for several years.
I didn't tell him how worried I was.
I needed to go on to the internet.
I needed to find out what was going to happen, because he doesn't
want to worry me.
He's not going to tell me that he might go down.
I had a barrister assigned to me. He read through all the case notes.
And he had advised me that, based on that evidence,
I should plead guilty.
In your head, you are kind of thinking, I am pleading guilty
to, perhaps, something I don't agree with.
Or was it really a conspiracy?
I was just out to have some fun with a few friends and I am looking at
a big, big charge here.
A conspiracy sounds quite grand but, really, it's an agreement
between certain people to do certain...a criminal action.
The text message evidence clearly showed that that was a criminal
enterprise, a criminal agreement.
Luke Fraser has contacted Simon Chapman.
And it was very apparent that those two had some sort of previous
relationship at last year's festival, where drugs had been
purchased by Simon from Luke Fraser.
Although there was some sympathy for Simon, because we do not believe
he was a hardened criminal, the reality is,
his actions were drug supply.
You have got to come back to the fact that Christian Pay
has passed away as a result of his actions.
And there is no getting away from that.
I felt really sorry for Simon, because I knew he had basically
been through what I'd been through. He's lost one of his best friends.
I remember feeling really guilty, as well, cos I know that it could have
been me.
Or it could have been anyone else.
I had this guilt. I felt so bad for him.
I didn't know what to say to him.
When I found out he was going to court, all I thought was that
it was my fault and that he hated me.
I had this feeling that I was never going to see him again, either.
It was just horrible.
And it was...
It was like the whole day again playing - losing another friend.
I, personally, for one,
think it's wrong that he did get arrested.
But I went to court with Simon.
I supported Simon all the way through it.
He was Christian's friend.
In my eyes, he's not a criminal.
He is just another one of them kids that...brought drugs, like kids do,
every day...
..but got caught.
Extremely anxious.
Nervous, certainly, walking into that courtroom.
Thinking to yourself, "Where is this going?
"What's going to happen to me?" And it was
a case of, you know, give my mum a cuddle, give my dad a cuddle,
Debbie a cuddle.
I stood next to these two guys
that were involved with drug dealing at the festival.
It's, you know...
You don't make eye contact with them.
The judge said that, basically, I had...
..every intention of giving these drugs out.
And I knew exactly what I was doing.
And then, I was handed a 16-month
custodial sentence.
Luke - four years and eight months.
And Michael, seven years.
Obviously, you get taken down into, like,
a custody room.
That, in itself, is really daunting.
You get locked in a room with a little bench.
I thought, "Oh, God, is this what it's going to be like...
.."for the next 16 months?"
It was like...
..I took my son to court...
SOBBING: ..and I came home without him.
And I cried all the way home.
I just couldn't believe it.
And I still don't believe it, to this day, that...
..they sentenced him.