Ian Blair should stick to his word

Some time ago Metropolitan Police Force commissioner Sir Ian Blair called for middle-class drug users to be targeted.

There is a drugs problem in this country but for the most part that problem is not exacerbated by middle-class drug users. It isn't middle class drug users who mug or burgle to fund their habit because they can usually afford the price of cocaine. It is the working-class junkies who steal to pay for their drugs who cause misery.

Today the inquest of actress Natasha Collins heard that she died in a scalding hot bath after she and fiancé Mark Speight "partied" at home on drugs and alcohol.

Miss Collins, 31, had 60 per cent burns to her body including her face and tongue and appeared to have died in the bath with the hot tap on after taking almost five times the lethal level of cocaine. She Collins also had a 0.4in diameter hole in the septum of her nose - something pathologist Professor Sebastian Lucas said was associated with cocaine use.

Her body was found the following day, 3 January 2008, by her fiancé. He told police that they had been "partying" on their own and had taken cocaine and sleeping pills as well as drinking wine and vodka.

Speight was initially arrested on suspicion of murder and supplying Class A drugs, but Scotland Yard later said he would not face any charges over the death.

If Sir Ian Blair is serious about targeting middle-class drug users, why has Speight not been arrested and charged with possession of cocaine. If his fiancée had five times the lethal level in her body then they obviously had more than a "personal use" quantity of the drug in their home.