A father-of-two died of a heart attack after drinking from a bottle of rum, unaware that it contained pure liquid cocaine.
The alcohol was used to smuggle the drug into Britain from St Lucia but, in a bizarre chain of events, one bottle was handed to cab driver Lascell Malcolm, 63, as a gift.
The bottle was intended to be handed over to drug baron Martin Newman, 49. He had asked unsuspecting flyer Martin Lawrence to carry two bottles of rum in his luggage, claiming his own bags were over weight.
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