A coroner has warned drug mules that they are playing “Russian roulette” after a 24-year-old Brazilian man suffered a painful death when one of more than 100 pellets of cocaine he had ingested burst on a flight from Lisbon to Dublin.

Gardaí with confidential information that drug-dealing was taking place from a house in Douglas, Co Cork, raided it and found cannabis with a street value of €1,200.