Chemist axe over cocaine

A BOOTS pharmacist was so high on cocaine when he turned up for work, he had to beg colleagues to call an ambulance.

Peter Barr told staff at the store in Grimsby, Lincs, he had taken the drug for “three days straight”.

They said he became increasingly agitated, as he complained of a “racing heart” and “difficulty breathing”.

A General Pharmaceutical Council hearing suspended Barr, of Northern Ireland, for eight months.