SENIOR DRUG MULE DIES

TORONTO -- Peel police and the coroner's office are probing the death of a
70-year-old British drug courier at Etobicoke General Hospital early
yesterday morning.

Police have refused to release the elderly man's identity pending the
notification of his next of kin in Middlesex, England.

Airport officers said the senior had swallowed 12 rubber pellets of heroin
and it appeared one broke inside him shortly after he arrived at the
terminal on an Air Canada flight Saturday night.

Police said they were shocked to learn the senior died of a possible drug
overdose.

"This is the oldest drug courier we have seen," one Peel officer said
yesterday. "He's probably the oldest drug mule we have had in Canada."