Melanie Boyd Begged for Help

[Peeperann]

It's always fun until someone dies and then everyone wants to say "It wasn't my responsibility"

TEENAGER Melanie Boyd begged her friends to call for help after taking a lethal cocktail of booze and drugs, an inquest was told.

But by the time an ambulance was called, three hours after she was found "blue" and "struggling to breathe", the popular Townsville private schoolgirl, 16, was dead.

In a tearful apology yesterday, Matthew Aubrey, 20, told an inquest into her June 2006 death that the first-time drug taker wanted to call for help when two fellow drug users at the "pharm party" fell into fits of convulsions.

"Mel had a phone, she said if it's happened to them I don't want this to happen to me," Mr Aubrey told the Townsville Coroner's Court.

But the six partygoers talked each other out of calling for an ambulance - because they did not want to involve the police.

"It was not my party, not my house, not my call," said the you

MUM of wa th, who was 18 at the time and the oldest at the party.

"Knowing what I know now, I wish I was smarter."

Parents Laurie and Julie Boyd angrily refused to accept his emotional plea for forgiveness as well as that of the teenage girl who supplied the drugs and hosted the beachfront house party.

"We thought we were invincible," said the girl, whose identity has been suppressed by the court.

She said she had not touched drugs since that fateful party.

"It scared me straight.

"I'm sorry it took something this catastrophic to make me realise how precious life is."

"I think we thought we were better and it would not happen to us."

Coroner Brian Smith presiding over the inquest heard "pharm parties", mixing alcohol, marijuana and prescription pills, had become popular among the nation's youth.

In a twist, it emerged that the girls who snorted lines of a white powder, popped up to eight anti-depressants and pain killers, and slammed shots of rum had not taken speed, or crystal meth, as believed by police.

"I told them (the other girls) it was speed. I wanted to be cool, I wanted to be accepted," the girl said.

She said she emptied the contents of an unknown capsule into a bag which they divided up into lines, before raiding her mother's drug cabinet for blue and orange pills.

"There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of Mel and wish it had all never happened," she said.

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[Dakota Valkyrie]

"We thought we were invincible"

How incredibly sad that this thought killed a girl... and many people every day. Too bad that her death will continue to be "that will never happen to me" for those that didn't know her, and some that did. I guess I will settle for that fact that there is at least one that was "scared straight".

[RockRGrl]

Very sad. Obviously no one wants the police involved if there is illegal activity happening, but I will never understand how people will let others die because they are too afraid of getting caught.
If the police were called this girl may still be here today. Yeah, maybe the kids would have received a little jail time for supplying drugs to others, but you serve your time, you learn your lesson and you move on, everything turns out ok.
Now these kids will have to live with their decision and guilt for the rest of their lives.
Again, very sad :(

[crickett]

How incredibly sad that this thought killed a girl... and many people every day. Too bad that her death will continue to be "that will never happen to me" for those that didn't know her, and some that did. I guess I will settle for that fact that there is at least one that was "scared straight".

Nice that she was scared straight AFTER she helped kill her friend. How could they NOT call for help when the girl was begging them to? How???

[blue_zombie]

Parents need to keep their dangerous medicines out of the path of teenagers. Too much publicity "glamourizing" drugs & sex have lead our teens to believe that in order to be "cool" they need to act like these so called role models. When in fact, they should be idolizing people out there working their ass off to support themselves and their families. I think all the children AND the parents who were involved in the pharm party should be held responsible. Who leaves a bunch of teenagers home alone unattended?????? Poor kid, may she RIP.