Michael Fabricant caught smuggling cocaine

At least, that's what the Colombian soldiers thought it was when they stopped him and found a quantity of white powder in his backback. The Lichfield Tory with the stick-on mane was on a trekking holiday. According to a report on the Press Association he was held at gunpoint and made to eat his stash. "It took some explanation, as I don't speak more than two or three words in Spanish, for them to accept it was Coffee Mate. They didn't want to taste it as pure cocaine is fairly poisonous so I had to eat several mouthfuls in front of them, with guns aimed at me, until they could see that it had no ill effect. Except afterwards I felt as sick as a dog