Stones drug bust movie

The infamous 1967 drugs bust of the Rolling Stones is to be made into a movie - with rakish actor Nigel Havers playing his own father, the defence barrister for Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

Jagger and Richards were arrested at Richards' Sussex home Redlands and charged with drugs possession. But a public backlash, summed up by the now legendary 'Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?' editorial in the Times by editor William Rees-Mogg, questioned the severity of the sentence and their convictions were eventually overturned.

The two-hour movie has been commissioned by American company HBO, which is behind Sex and the City, The Sopranos and Six Feet Under. Havers will play Lord Michael Havers, who defended Jagger and Richards, but no announcement has been made on who will play the Stones.

A Butterfly on a Wheel is being scripted by Nick Fisher, who wrote the BBC midlife crisis series, Manchild, also starring Havers.