A FORMER security officer was found with a cocktail of drugs at a music event at Blackpool.

Joseph Burley, a 24-year-old father-of-two, of Staton Avenue, Bolton, pleaded guilty to possession of ecstasy, cocaine and ketamine.

He was fined £140 as well as £85 in prosecution costs.

He was also ordered to pay a £30 victim surcharge by Blackpool magistrates, who ordered the destruction of the drugs.

Prosecutor, Adrian Hollamby, said on September 17 last year Burley attended the Pier Jam music event at Blackpool’s North Pier.

Burley attracted the attention of the event’s security officers when there was an exchange between him and another person.

He was searched and the officers found the class A and B drugs. Burley had no previous convictions for drug offences.

Mitch Sarangi, defending, said Burley’s first child had been born by the date of the music event.

Burley had gone to the event and was letting his hair down, so he bought the drugs from someone there.

He did not regularly use drugs and had learnt his lesson. He had spent some time in the cells after being arrested.