A YOUNG mum died from a heart attack brought on by cocaine she took during a rare night out.

An inquest heard how 28-year-old Tara Cully suffered from anxiety and depression and did not often socialise.

But on August 14 last year her partner Alan Roe’s mother looked after their family’s three children while she accompanied him to a Radcliffe pub where he was competing in a pool competition.

Assistant coroner Peter Sigee read Mr Roe’s statement in which he told how they got to the pub at 6pm and had a few drinks. He was aware that she had bought some cocaine, but not how much.

The couple and their friends left the pub at around midnight and bought more drink before returning to their Lever Street, Radcliffe, home where they continued drinking.

The friends finally left and Miss Cully went to bed at around 9am while Mr Roe, her partner of eight years, remained downstairs tidying the house and getting ready for the children to come home.

During the day, while Miss Cully remained upstairs, the couple communicated by sending each other text messages.

She sent her last message at 9.35pm and he replied at 9.47pm saying he would be coming to bed soon.

But Mr Sigee said that when he went upstairs at 10pm he found her collapsed with no pulse.

“When you went into the bedroom you saw Tara and realised she was not conscious and she felt cold,” Mr Sigee said.

"There was nothing you could see in the bedroom to suggest Tara had recently consumed drugs or alcohol."

Mr Roe tried to resuscitate his partner until paramedics arrived and rushed her to the Royal Bolton hospital. But doctors were unable to save her and she was declared dead on August 16.

A police investigation found there were no suspicious circumstances surround the mother-of-two and step-mum of one's death.

The inquest in Heywood heard how Miss Cully’s GP was not aware of any drug misuse and a toxicology report found that, when admitted to hospital, only metabolites of cocaine were in her system and alcohol was at around

half the drink driving level.

Pathologist Dr Patrick Waugh, who carried out the post mortem, concluded that Miss Cully had suffered a heart attack brought on by having taken cocaine, which can block the blood supply to the muscles of the heart.

“It can have this sudden, adverse effect upon the heart,” added forensic toxicologist Julie Evans.

Recording a conclusion that Miss Cully’s death had been “drug related” Mr Sigee said: “There’s nothing to suggest that that had been taken against her will or that any other substance had been involved.

"Tara was very much her own person who would not be led or pressured into anything against her wishes.

He added: “Tara was a caring and loving person, a good partner and mother to her children."