Sussex homecoming for Mick Jagger drug trial play

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones were arrested in 1967

A play based on the 1960s drug trial of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards will be performed in the town where the court hearing took place.

Redlands is named after the house in West Wittering, West Sussex, where the pair were arrested.

Their trial in Chichester drew attention to the county and many saw it as a "cultural turning point", according to the play's writer Charlotte Jones.

It will feature at the Chichester Festival Theatre from 20 September until 18 October.

Redlands will be performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre

Following the trial, Richards was sentenced to a year in prison and Jagger got three months, but their sentences were overturned on appeal.

Redlands centres on the friendship between two other people caught up in the drama, singer and actress Marianne Faithfull, who was Jagger's girlfriend at the time, and teenage actor Nigel Havers.

Havers' father Michael Havers QC defended Jagger and Richards in court and disapproved of their influence on his son.

The real Havers was supportive of the production and spoke to the cast.

Jones also visited Faithfull in Paris to tell her about the play and said she was "really behind" the production.