Crystal meth at the Home Office

CRYSTAL meth has been found inside a toilet cubicle at the Home Office’s Westminster headquarters.

Security staff called in police when a small amount of the highly addictive class A drug and a pipe were found after apparently being discarded.

The area in the building where it was found on May 3 is not open to the public and visitors face airport-style security at reception.

It is the third time illicit substances have been seized in six months at the Government department responsible for the war on drug abuse.

No suspects have been identified but a Home Office spokesman said: ‘We take incidents of this nature extremely seriously.’

Crystal meth, or crystal methamphetamine, can be smoked, injected or snorted.

At the weekend, new Home Secretary Sajid Javid tweeted a photo of himself with a Border Force officer and a sniffer dog called Trigger at Heathrow Airport. He posted: ‘We have impressive four-legged friends helping sniff out drugs, cash and illicit goods. Go Trigger!’