Within five minutes more than 40 canisters of teargas were thrown into the crowd.
The hawker - who preferred to remain anonymous - arrived at Glastonbury with 600 canisters to sell at three for a tenner.
He said that all 12 canisters on board were full and were checked before takeoff, as required.
After Dr. Ford's death, a police search uncovered 21 canisters buried beneath a false floor at his home.
They were shocked to find "the supplier brazenly handed over nearly 100 canisters in broad daylight as children played just yards away".
In 1997, he was jailed for 12 years after being found guilty of importing 317kg of cocaine into Holland from Venezuela and for the possession of MDMA, 1,076kg of cannabis, guns, three hand grenades and 940 canisters of CS gas.
Investigators believe that 144 canisters in the cargo hold of the DC-9 ignited a fierce blaze that caused the plane bound for Atlanta to crash shortly after takeoff from Miami.
In Montana, Secretary of State Mike Cooney, much like his Iowa counterpart, picked a name out of a ballot box that contained 10 canisters with "Buchanan" written on index cards and 10 with "Hagelin".
Law-enforcement authorities today removed the last of 27 canisters packed with plastic explosives and other hazardous materials from the home of a doctor questioned in a murder attempt on his business partner.
Freak Frohman had been observing this ritual for as long as he could remember, and suddenly it occurred to him that his father's CO2 canisters might be suitable as rocket motors.
It was as the Hong Kong Cantopop queen watched aghast as live television images showed police fire the first of 87 canisters of teargas into a sea of pro-democracy demonstrators, in a botched bid to quell their protest.
