This is the kilo block of cocaine that police officers found inside a stage light in the back of Elton John tribute singer Colin Lowe’s Mercedes A-class.

The 57-year-old’s vehicle was pulled over on the A34 in Oxfordshire on February 13, as he headed to the Dorset coast for a Valentine’s week gig.

Mystery surrounded why officers from Thames Valley Police specifically stopped the Scot’s car, with jurors at Oxford Crown Court not given the reason.

Inside a box in the back of the car that contained stage lights was found around a kilo each of cocaine, worth £25,000 on the wholesale market, and cutting agent benzocaine.

Lowe, from Hamilton, near Glasgow, was cleared last week of possession with intent to supply the class A drug.

Giving evidence in his own defence, the gigging singer and part-time magician suggested the cocaine had been put there by a man he knew by the nickname ‘Chooks’.

In the week before his trip south, he said he had been asked by the mysterious Chooks to take some cigarettes, which he thought might be ‘dodgy’, to an associate on the south coast.

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The defendant’s fingerprints and DNA were not found on the drugs packaging. There was nothing ‘of interest’ on his phone either.

From the witness box, he told the jury: “I was just trying to help him out. I took his stuff for nothing, just to help him.”

Thames Valley Police has now released images from the A34 stop, which were shown to jurors at Oxford Crown Court last week.

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