A Conservative MP today described the terrifying moment he was held at gunpoint and forced to eat coffee whitener to persuade a group of excitable Colombian soldiers that he was not a drugs trafficker. Michael Fabricant, who represents the Staffordshire consitutuency of Lichfield and Burntwood, was on a South American trekking holiday with a friend last week when he was stopped by the men toting M16 rifles. The soldiers searched through their bags and found an unlabelled jar of Coffee Mate - which Mr Fabricant had packed because he did not want to risk drinking fresh milk. Unfortunately, the soldiers thought it was cocaine - sometimes dubbed 'Colombian marching powder'.
A Conservative MP today described the terrifying moment he was held at gunpoint and forced to eat coffee whitener to persuade a group of excitable Colombian soldiers that he was not a drugs trafficker.
Michael Fabricant, who represents the Staffordshire consitutuency of Lichfield and Burntwood, was on a South American trekking holiday with a friend last week when he was stopped by the men toting M16 rifles.
The soldiers searched through their bags and found an unlabelled jar of Coffee Mate - which Mr Fabricant had packed because he did not want to risk drinking fresh milk. Unfortunately, the soldiers thought it was cocaine - sometimes dubbed 'Colombian marching powder'.
