Four men have been arrested following the wildly publicised death of Bristol man Nick Bonnie at Manchester's Warehouse Project earlier this year.
After being sold a tainted batch of ecstasy this September at the Warehouse Project, Bonnie felt ill, eventually getting help. Bonnie wound up dying later in the early hours of Saturday, September 28 at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. The four Stroud-area men - three aged 29 and one aged 30 - have been bailed until December 19 following interviews regarding perverting the course of justice and drugs supply.
The death caused a large public reaction, moving the Warehouse Project to begin testing confiscated drugs on site and posting the results live on Twitter in an attempt to keep clubbers safe, as well as prompting reactions from public officials at the Home Office, and calls from Sacha Lord-Marchionne, director of the Warehouse Project, urging the government to consider drug testing and education legislation.
‘We need to educate people about what’s going on at the moment. There’s some nasty stuff out there,’ Lord Marchionne said.