A FORMER drug addict has told how she found God and kicked her habit - but lost her brother to drugs.

Heartbroken Karen Phillips, 26, from Cwmbran, told how her 32-year-old "big bro" Darren Wiley was found dead in a flat in the town in March.

He was believed to have died from a drugs overdose. Tests found heroin, Ecstasy and amphetamines in his bloodstream. "He had seen mates die from heroin and just a few months before he died, he said he never wanted to touch drugs again," said Karen of Rhymney Court, Thornhill..

"But he got in with the wrong people and he started taking it again."

It was a near-fatal dose of heroin while she was living in a hostel that made her realise there was more to life and decide to stop taking drugs altogether.

"A man came into the hostel and told me he was an Evangelist and would pray for me," she said. "The next morning, I decided I didn't want to do drugs any more.

"I found my brother after nine years last May and I prayed he had come to his senses, too." Darren was in prison but keeping fit. "I asked him to come and live with us when he came out. But he blew the best chance he would ever get."