Cocaine from users’ urine has been detected in increasing quantities, research from the Thames monitoring station near the Houses of Parliament has shown.

The drug should be removed from the capital’s water supply by treatment and dilution, however, the research has shown that the system is failing and the constant detection of cocaine could affect wildlife.

Eels migrate up the Thames every year between April and October, but face many hazards and obstacles and are regarded as critically endangered. 

They are usually found close to the estuary, travelling as far as Greenwich. The class A drug found in the water affects their behaviour and makes them more erratic.

Downpours that overwhelm waste plant systems and carry sewage into the river added to the phenomena, the research said.  

‘Increases in caffeine, cocaine and benzoylecgonine [a metabolite] were observed 24 hours after sewer overflow events,’ King’s College London researchers told The Sunday Times‘ Science editor Jonathan Leake.

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He is sporting a prison regulation shaved haircut and a white T-shirt bearing his inmate number (L218032018) and name: Ye Ming Yuen.

Yuen is a convicted drug dealer.

Normally, the Mail would not travel half-way around the world to conduct an interview — via a special video link — with such an individual.

Yuen, 29, was born and raised in London where his parents still live. He must also be the first former pupil of £37,000-a-year Westminster School to find himself locked up in top-security Changi.

He has been ordered to serve 20 years after being convicted of supplying cannabis and methamphetamines (‘crystal meth’ or ‘ice’) to his friends.

Yet, this is not why Yuen is at the centre of a diplomatic row between the UK and Singapore, which traditionally have close ties, or why he agreed to speak to us.

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