A BRITISH tourist had taken so much cocaine on the night a Scots newly-wed fell to her death from a Benidorm balcony that his nose bled.

Details of the drug-induced condition of Joseph Graham, as Kirsty Maxwell, 27, fell from the 10th floor of apartments on April 29 emerged in a Spanish police report yesterday.

The Spanish police document said Mr Graham, who was once accused of rape after his DNA was found on an alleged victim, was held by police and assessed by a doctor in case the bleed had anything to do with Mrs Maxwell’s fall.

He found Mr Graham’s nasal cavities were “red raw” because of the “large amount” of cocaine he had consumed before the Scot walked into the flat where he had been partying with four male friends.

A dropped Marlboro cigarette also placed Mr Graham, from Nottingham,, the first man to be hauled to court as part of a homicide probe, at the spot where Kirsty plunged to her death.

A court hearing involving the man and fellow Britons, Ricky Gammon, 31, Anthony Holehouse, 34, Callum Northridge, 27, and Daniel Bailey, 32, all from the Nottingham area, has been taking place in Benidorm. They were questioned as part of a homocide investigation, but have not been charged with any offence, and have now been given permission to return to the UK.

Mr Graham’s dropped Marlboro was found next to a sliding door by the balcony where Mrs Maxwell, of Livingston, West Lothian, had fallen. She had been on a hen weekend with friends when she stumbled into the apartment where the men were.

It said Amazon worker Mr Graham had given an inconsistent statement about Mrs Maxwell’s last moments.

In the first, he told officers that he had opened the door to the woman and then saw her “jumping around” to where the sliding door was.

However, Mr Graham then said he was in a different apartment, 10A, when he heard a knock at the door.

He told police that he opened it to see Mrs Maxwell, who had been on a hen weekend, “running along the corridor to the apartment and going in” before she fell.

The police’s report also said that Mr Graham had once been “accused of rape after his DNA was found on a woman” who had made such a claim. It added that as he was transferred to a police station following Ms Maxwell’s death, Mr Graham had said “repeatedly that Kirsty was attractive”.

Mr Graham, who is waiting to hear whether he faces prosecution, has been allowed to return to Britain after being questioned by officers. He has not been charged with any offence.

His lawyer Roberto Sanchez said the cigarette discovery did not incriminate him.

Mr Gammon, Mr Holehouse, Mr Northridge and Mr Bailey told a judge on Wednesday they were innocent of any wrongdoing.

Mrs Maxwell married her husband Adam in September.