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EXCLUSIVE: Minder takes him on booze session in bar rife with cocaine...dealer's at work just feet away from where Prince sits with drink
Harry drugs den scandal
PRINCE Harry is being taken to bars where cocaine is sold and widely used—and the man with him is a minder who is supposed to be steering him clear of drugs.
Prince Charles will be enraged to learn that his son hangs out in cocaine-infested nightspots, which are OWNED by Mark Dyer who was chosen as a "mentor" to Harry after the teenage prince's pot-smoking confessions last year.
A News of the World investigation this week revealed cocaine is openly on sale and is being regularly used by customers...and even bar staff.
On Friday night we spotted the prince, accompanied by Dyer, boozing for six hours in one bar where our undercover team had earlier bought cocaine.
Dyer, a 37-year-old ex-Welsh Guards officer, became 19-year-old Harry's private minder after organising big brother William's 21st birthday party and gap year in Peru.
He also took William on safari in Africa and today is flying out with Harry to Australia where the prince will start his gap year before going to Sandhurst Military Academy.
Dyer is also major shareholder, director and general manager of the So Bar chain, which has nightspots in London.
We watched Harry, 19, as he spent a long Friday night in the Chelsea branch of So Bar—in the presence of customers who bought drugs from a dealer on the premises.
Our investigators were sold some by a regular known as "Brickie".
Discreet
"It's proper gear, no rubbish," he told us. "It's £70 for a gramme but you won't get better elsewhere."
We handed over £70 cash for the two wraps of cocaine, both wrapped in National Lottery Lotto slips.
After arriving at about 5.30pm, the royal party chose a discreet alcove at the back of the room, just yards from where our investigators had been sold the cocaine. Dyer, Harry and a brunette sat drinking steadily for six hours.
The prince—in jeans, a blue shirt and a trucker's cap—downed two potent Sex On The Beach cocktails, made of vodka and peach liqueur, while Dyer sipped a pint of Guinness. Police bodyguards sat at a nearby table.
Soon Harry tucked into a dinner of lamb steaks and risotto, washed down with a bottle of red wine.
Afterwards Harry and Dyer chilled out on a sofa. The prince lounged around texting on his mobile phone and chatting to revellers who made a bee-line for him.
One worse-for-wear blonde told us: "He's so charming and really nice. He told me he was going to Australia."
When the evening was over, Harry was driven back to Prince Charles's Clarence House home while Dyer drove himself to his nearby flat in Earl's Court.
While Harry was in the bar, our investigators carried out tests on both gents' and ladies' toilets, finding fresh traces of cocaine in every cubicle. Users chop up their cocaine on the cisterns and lay it out in lines before snorting it through a rolled-up banknote.
Our investigators meticulously wiped cistern tops clean before returning an hour later to take samples from each one. The findings were examined by a forensic drugs analyst at a laboratory. Every swab from the loos tested positive for cocaine, as did the cocaine bought from the dealer in the bar.
Last night a close friend of Prince Charles told how shocked he will be at our findings. "Harry has already had one dangerous brush with drugs because he was keeping bad company," he said.
"Now the man who is supposed to keep him away from drugs is seen with him at a place where, whether he knows it or not, cocaine seems as common as Coca-Cola.
"Dyer has a very trusted position. He's part equerry, part big brother, and part guardian."
Last night shocked Dyer asked to see the News of the World's dossier on his staff and punters. And he told how he takes a tough line on drug dealers and drug users.
"It's difficult sometimes because bars get busy and these days 20-year-olds and 30-year-olds are quite into drugs. I don't know why.
"We discourage it massively. I'm very anti it personally. Lots of people are caught and barred for drugs. We take a strict line on it. If I ever found staff or a manager anywhere near it they'd be dismissed."
He added: "We have a very strict policy on any form of drugs in all the bars. All the loos are checked by the management every hour."
Our dossier is available to the police and Prince Charles.
Charles gets a Dyer warning
PRINCE HARRY starts his gap-year trip to Australia today after a recent history of pot smoking, a chastening visit to a rehab centre and dismal A-level results.
Now more than ever he needs to stick to the straight and narrow.
At his side will be former Army officer Mark Dyer, an unpaid aide Harry idolises so much he wants to follow him into the Welsh Guards.
But Prince Charles must ask himself today—is Dyer up to the job?
Our investigation into his string of bars shows that hard drugs are rife in them. Nevertheless, Dyer seems happy to take the vulnerable and impressionable Harry into that environment.
Isn't it time Charles stopped trusting his troubled son to aides, bodyguards and hangers-on—and did the job himself?
- Very cheeky indeed!)
