A WOMAN died after accidentally overdosing on heroin and alcohol.

At a Huddersfield inquest yesterday coroner Roger Whittaker ruled that Debra Woodburn had died from dependent abuse of drugs.

Mrs Woodburn, 35, died at 8.40pm on May 29 last year at her home in Bishop's Court flats, off Woodhead Road, Berry Brow.

Earlier that day she had gone with a friend to buy heroin and cocaine.

The friend had seen her smoking the cocaine, but said Mrs Woodburn took the heroin home with her.

Mrs Woodburn, who was divorced and unemployed, was visited by her boyfriend, Charles McDowell that evening.

She injected herself with heroin and Mr McDowell checked on her and found her in a "stupor" but breathing.

She then stopped breathing and he called an ambulance.

Mrs Woodburn was dead on arrival at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

Pathologist George Thomas said Mrs Woodburn had 0.13 microgrammes of morphine per millilitre of blood in her system, which was enough to cause death.

She also had 264 millitres of alcohol per 100ml of blood - three times over the legal limit for driving.