Three due in court after raid on temple

Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:21am BST

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LONDON (Reuters) - Three men were due to appear in court on Saturday on drugs charges following a police raid on a Rastafarian temple in south London, Scotland Yard said.

About 250 officers, some of them armed, took part in a swoop on the premises, which include a Rastafarian temple believed to have been visited by the late reggae star Bob Marley.

Fitzroy Pommel, 48, Jahlaw Salassie, 40, and Roderick Green, 45, are charged with conspiracy to supply Class C drugs, a legal category that includes cannabis.

They are due to appear at Camberwell Green magistrates court.

Eleven others arrested during the raid were released on police bail and four more were cautioned for having cannabis.

Police said several kilos of the drug were recovered, along with an unspecified quantity of crack cocaine and six rounds of ammunition.

A Rastafarian community has lived at the house in Kennington since at least the early 1970s.

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