The mother of a teenage girl who died after overdosing on a party drug has told of her heartbreak over her daughter’s death.
Alesha Fernando fell unresponsive in a suburban Melbourne unit after ingesting the drug GHB which was supplied to her by a man she had only just met.
The 13-year-old was then rushed to the Monash Medical Centre and placed on life support but she could not be saved, the Herald Sun reported.
Alesha had been with a 15-year-old friend when Luke Delphin, 19, and his mate picked-up the pair in a stolen car, according to police, in June 2017.
Alesha Fernando died after ingesting the drug GHB which was supplied to her by a man she had just met
Luke Delphin has pleaded guilty to supplying a child with illicit drugs
Alesha was just 13-years-old when she died after taking the party drug GHB
She and her friend were then driven to a house in Narre Warren, in the city’s south-east, where Delphin spent $50 on 20 millilitres of GHB, according to a police summary which neither the prosecution nor defence have yet agreed upon.
The group were then taken to Delphin’s Dandenong unit, where Alesha ingested the drug from a shared plunger.
That police summary explained that ‘At some point Delphin took a plunger to draw up amounts of the GHB substance and passed it around’.
‘During the night Delphin has continued to ask Alesha if she wants more of the GHB substance,’ the summary also said.
Delphin will face the County Court of Victoria this year
Alesha fell asleep and was found by a friend lying unresponsive.
Her mother, Katrina Gavan, also rushed to the unit but Alesha ‘was cold by the time I got to her’.
Delphin has pleaded guilty to supplying a child with illicit drugs. He has also pleaded guilty to a number of other offences committed over a four-day period and he will face the County Court of Victoria later this year.
Ms Gavan said Delphin had taken away her whole life.
‘He knew what he did. She was a child. He was a grown man,’ she told the Herald Sun.
Alesha’s organs were donated and she has saved three lives, Ms Gavan said.