Former MP Crispin Blunt charged with four drug offences
Mar 18th 2026
The former Reigate MP, who served from 1997 to 2024, was charged after police searched his Horley home, the Crown Prosecution Service says.
- Crispin Blunt, 65, has been charged with four drugs offences: one count of possessing a class A drug and three counts of possessing class B drugs.
- The class A drug is alleged to be methamphetamine.
- The class B drugs are alleged to be GBL, cannabis and amphetamine.
- The charges follow police attendance at his Horley, Surrey, home on 25 October 2023 during a separate investigation.
- He will appear at Westminster magistrates court on 25 March and the Crown Prosecution Service warned against reporting that could prejudice the proceedings.
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