A mother died after packages of cocaine she smuggled into the UK from Trinidad burst in her stomach, a court heard today.

Nicola Last’s family and friends thought she had gone to Spain to celebrate her 40th birthday, but she was part of a drugs gang that conspired to import the drug for sale in the UK, Cardiff Crown Court was told.

When she died she had 34 packages containing more than £50,000 of cocaine in her stomach and died of a massive overdose.

David Case, with whom Last travelled to the Carribean island, is jointly charged with Sebastian Stephen with conspiracy to import a controlled Class A drug and conspiracy to supply that drug.

Case, 44, of Kingarth Street, and Stephen, 40, of Adventurer’s Quay, both Cardiff, deny the charges.

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