Victoria Buchanan, 42, had the drug in her hand luggage while drinking champagne at Manchester Airport.
She administered an epipen she found in the teacher’s handbag in the belief she was suffering an anaphylactic shock, but Mrs Buchanan died in hospital. The cocaine bag was only discovered in her body during a post mortem examination. Assistant coroner Andrew Bridge, recording a verdict of misadventure, asked: ‘What on Earth was she thinking?’
Mr Buchanan said he had left for Dubai a few days earlier and there would have been about £60 of cocaine left. He added: ‘Not a lot was left – not that that matters now’. A toxicology report showed amounts of cocaine ‘consistent with recreational use’. But levels of a substance called cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine – which remains in the body for up to five days – were much higher and consistent with ‘excessive’ use, it said.
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