A Newtown woman died after taking a drugs overdose, an inquest was told.

The hearing into the death of Danielle Wye held at Welshpool Town Hall on Wednesday, September 15 recorded a verdict of misadventure after hearing how, in the early hours of June 21, 2020, the victim suffered a cardiac arrest after injecting heroin at home.

Mr Jones told the court how, on the evening of June 21, 2020 Miss Wye was at home with a friend, Mr Stafford Jones, in Pine Court, Newtown.

He told the hearing he had gone to go to take a plate into the kitchen at around midnight, and when he returned a few seconds later, he found Miss Wye unconscious on the sofa having injected a syringe of heroin.

"I said 'Dani, Dani, are you ok? Or something like that," he told the court.

"At the time I did not understand the severity of what had happened."

He then said he called a friend who he believed "would know what to do", before calling the emergency services.

While Mr Jones was on the phone to the ambulance service, his friend arrived at the property with an overdose kit, containing what was said to be a pre-filled syringe of an opioid reversal drug.

Testimony from the second man, Mr Bradley Davies, said he arrived around ten minutes after receiving the call from Mr Jones, and injected the drug into Miss Wye three times in an effort to save her, but it had no effect, he said.

A statement from paramedic Margaret Lloyd who attended the incident in the first ambulance at the property said that when they arrived, shortly after 2am, there was a sense of "panic" at the scene.

A second ambulance crew arrived at around 2.15am, and paramedic teams worked for 30 minutes to resuscitate the victim before taking her to hospital in Shrewsbury, the court was told.

However despite recovering a weak pulse at the scene, she was unable to breathe by herself on the ambulance journey to accident and emergency. She arrived at 3.34am, but died shortly afterwards.

Her death was verified at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital at 6.10am on June 21, with the medical cause given as heroin toxicity.