A WREXHAM woman who overdosed on heroin, ecstasy and cocaine "did not get the help she needed", an inquest heard.

Cerys Rhian Smith, 32, of St Mary's Close, Chirk died on March 11, 2019 at an address on Holborn Crescent in the Brynteg area of Wrexham.

An inquest held in Ruthin on Monday (October 12) heard that Ms Smith's death was subject to a North Wales Police investigation, but that no criminal charges were brought.

The inquest heard that on the evening of March 11 of last year, Ms Smith, a mother-of-one, was pronounced dead by paramedics at the Holborn Crescent property after taking a number of Class A and B drugs.

Police attended the address, and formally questioned two others who were present at the property over the circumstances surrounding her death, with the pair arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.

The court heard that they claimed they had presumed Ms Smith, who was unresponsive, to have been asleep after they had all taken heroin and cocaine together.

North Wales Police deemed there to be insufficient evidence to charge any of the suspects involved, with the case "hampered" by the fact key witnesses are drug dependent.

A post-mortem examination into her death found bruising Ms Smith's right hand consistent with a mark left following an intravenous injection.

It found "toxic" levels of heroin, ecstasy and cocaine, and a provisional cause of death was recorded as heroin, ecstasy and cocaine toxicity.

The inquest was told that Ms Smith was a "funny and loving girl", who started using drugs as a teenager to "feel accepted" and to "fit in" - she is said to be "deeply missed" by her family and friends and was "taken too soon".

She was said to have been bullied at school, which her family states led to mental health issues and her drug addiction - which began with cannabis use before she started to use heroin.

Regarding her mental health issues, which included depression and borderline personality disorder, her mother, Patricia Mary Smith, said "no one listened" to her daughter's "calls for help" prior to her death, and that she was the victim of a "flawed system" of support - with the mental health and substances misuse services criticised for failing to work together to support Ms Smith.

Mrs Smith told the court that she will also campaign to make it a legal duty in the United Kingdom to help people who are in urgent need of medical help - citing that several European countries have a "Duty to rescue" law, whereby people can be held liable for failing to come to the aid of another party who could face potential injury or death without help.

Recording a conclusion of drug-related death, John Gittins, senior coroner for North Wales East and Central, deemed on the balance of all probabilities Ms Smith's death to have been caused by heroin, ecstasy and cocaine toxicity.