Snorts Direct: Footie tycoon Mike Ashley’s HQ rife with coke and crack

[pete 2,499]

SPORTS Direct’s scandal-hit HQ is awash with drugs, The Sun has found.

 

Cocaine, cannabis and amphetamine use are rife at the huge warehouse where 3,000 work.

 

Blood-stained syringes were discovered last week, while cops are regularly called to quiz doped-up staff at the site in Shirebrook, Derbyshire.

 

An MP last night called for the depot to be closed as billionaire owner and Rangers shareholder Mike Ashley faces a showdown with investors.

 

Cocaine, cannabis, speed, crack and bloody needles

 

SPORTS Direct boss Mike Ashley faced new calls to quit last night after The Sun found widespread drug use at the firm’s HQ.

 

The Rangers shareholder’s staff have been caught taking cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines.

 

Users’ dirty needles, spoons and a crack pipe fashioned from a biro have also been discovered. Cops with sniffer dogs also scoured the depot after a cleaner spotted a huge stash.

 

A source said: “Last week a bag was found behind boxes and it was crammed with needles, glass tubes and burnt spoons and foil.

 

“The place is awash with drugs. Staff use in their breaks and hide drugs all over the place.

 

Heroin addicts’ spoons were dumped

 

“The testing procedures are right but they aren’t doing enough to stop drugs coming in.”

 

Our probe uncovered 23 drug and drink breaches dating back to 2012. Police were called to the 800,000sq ft depot in Shirebrook, Derbys, five times and 13 workers sacked.

 

Some were re-employed soon after by unsuspecting bosses.

 

The source added: “The agencies get rid of staff details and because there’s such a high turnover the hierarchy can’t remember names or faces. It’s outrageous and so slack.

 

“Ashley has no idea what is going on under his nose and it’s getting worse.”

 

Labour MP John Mann last night dubbed the warehouse the “wild west” and called for it to be shut down. He said: “There is no end to the horror stories coming out of there. I have no confidence they can turn it around.

 

“It’s not operating as a proper workplace and the danger is that illegality will carry on and not be challenged.” Earlier this year MPs hammered Ashley, 51, for failing to pay the minimum wage to some of the 3,000 staff. Shares in the pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap retailer have slumped 60 per cent and investors will be gunning for the tycoon at next Wednesday’s AGM.

 

He plans a depot open day that day in a bid to restore confidence.

 

The firm’s lawyers have also launched a probe in practices and will publish their findings next week.

 

Tory MP Kelly Tolhurst, a member of the Business Select Committee, said it had yet to complete its inquiry. She said of our probe: “Any evidence of criminality must be investigated and not brushed under the carpet.”

 

The firm said: “Mike Ashley believes workplaces should be drug-free and is grateful to The Sun for raising this important issue.”

 

 

 

APPALLING conditions at the warehouse emerged when Mr Ashley gave evidence to MPs in June.

 

Unions claimed one woman gave birth in the toilets because she was so scared of taking time off.

 

Staff were fined for being late, and 110 ambulances were called there in three years.

 

 

Mr Ashley, who is worth £2.43billion, was accused of running the depot like a Victorian workhouse. He said wages were raised above the minimum rate in December.

 

The Unite union has since got staff around £1million in back pay.

 

Mr Ashley also pledged to tackle managers sexually harassing female staff.

 

But some investors still want him and chairman Keith Hellawell to go

 

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/7231870/Snorts-Direct-Footie-tycoon-Mike-Ashleys-HQ-rife-with-coke-and-crack.html

Edited September 3, 2016 by pete

[JFK-1 1,693]

But some investors still want him and chairman Keith Hellawell to go

 

 

Is there anything this poisonous cretin becomes involved in where they don't want him to go?

[26th of foot 6,084]

It's a race to the bottom for Mikey.

 

Waiting there and always available for self-help group meetings and hugs, is Gerald Ratner.

[jhunter 0]

a crack pipe fashioned from a biro

 

my money's on the accountancy department for that find.

[Uilleam 5,948]

The Rangers shareholder’s staff have been caught taking cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines.

 

Not the Newcastle United owner, then........