Posh Henley’s over-oared by drunken toffs

POLICE have set up a mobile nick for rowdy toffs at Britain’s poshest summer event, the Henley Regatta.

The trailer, which has 10 cells, was parked outside the annual rowing event in Henley-on-Thames.

A mobile police station has also been set up inside a nearby marquee.

And 100 officers are patrolling the streets of the usually-quiet Oxfordshire town to deal with potential troublemakers.

In one incident, a partygoer escaped with a warning after trying to punch a man outside a pub.

Scores of drunken girls, many appearing to be underage, tottered through Henley in skimpy clothes.

One clutched a bottle of cheap vodka as she staggered along beside a friend who stopped to vomit.

Police took to the river in patrol boats after the owners of a party vessel let too many passengers on board. Drug taking is also rife at the five-day event, which finishes today.

The Daily Star Sunday used cocaine swabs to test the surfaces of sinks in two sets of portable toilets. Both found traces of the class A drug.

One resident said: “The regatta is one of the rowdiest events of the summer – it’s far rougher than Ascot.

“There’s lots of fights, couples having sex in public, drug taking and constant screeching from drunks in the street. It makes it hard to sleep.

“People who haven’t been think of it as very genteel, but the reality is completely different.

“Most of the locals try to get away for it.”

The rowing contest sees posh London clubs Mahiki and Dstrkt set up riverside outposts. Punters are charged up to £40-a-head to stand in a marquee.