A man has been convicted of plotting to supply class A drugs at the Kendal Calling music festival.

Michael Mountfort, 42, had denied a charge which arose out of a police inquiry into the death of a teenager at last summer's event.

Eighteen-year-old Christian Pay, from Millom, died after falling ill at the site near Penrith.

But after a trial at Carlisle Crown Court, Mountfort was unanimously found guilty of involvement in a class A drugs supply conspiracy.

This ran from April to early August last year. Jurors had heard Mountfort travelled to the festival on July 30 with 21-year-old Luke Fraser.

At around 4.30pm that day, Millom man Simon Chapman, also aged 21, made telephone contact with Fraser. The purpose of this, the jury heard, was to buy drugs and a deal was done between the pair.

Prosecutor Nigel Booth told the court: "In time Mr Chapman supplied them to a group of friends, one of whom was a man by the name of Christian Pay.

"Mr Pay was subsequently taken ill, was taken to hospital at Carlisle and later died. And so the police began an inquiry into what had happened."

Illegal substances - including an amphetamine, cocaine and ecstasy - were seized both from Fraser's tent and the car in which he travelled to Kendal Calling.

After he and Mountfort were arrested, police analysed their mobile phones. Texts between the pair hinted at the stockpiling of illegal drugs ahead of the festival.

"Maybe a new business venture for Kendal", Mountfort said in one text to Fraser. There were also references to "going halves", "triple profit" and the remark "sell sell sell".

In evidence, Mountfort - a confessed drugs user - claimed he was merely advising Fraser and insisted he had nothing to do with either selling or supplying.

Following the jury's guilty verdict, Judge Barbara Forrester adjourned Mountfort's case until August 1.

On that date, Mountfort, of Oak Drive, Denton, Manchester, is due to be sentenced along with Fraser, of Oakfield Grove, also Manchester, and Chapman, of The Green, Millom. They admitted the conspiracy charge at an earlier court hearing.

Mountfort was remanded on bail.