From the archive, 29 November 1968: John Lennon "entitled to compassion"

Originally published in the Guardian on 29 November 1968John Lennon, one of the Beatles, was fined £150 with 20 guineas costs at Marylebone Court in London yesterday after admitting possessing the drug cannabis. A charge against him of obstructing police in the execution of a search warrant, to which he pleaded not guilty, was dismissed after the prosecution had offered no evidence on this.Mrs Yoko Ono Cox (34), a friend, who was with Lennon in the dock, was cleared of both charges against her...

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