In the fight against Methamphetamine won’t we need is openness not secrecy. What is more ridiuclous is a quick google search establish that the details of this sportsman have already been published and yet a court now wants to retrospectively cover things up.
According to Judge Harvey that is a-ok by the law. In combatrting drugs and drug use secrecy isn’t going to help.
A Bay of Plenty sportsman who collapsed and died after using methamphetamine and cannabis during a training session has had his identity concealed by the courts.
At an inquest into the man’s death in Tauranga yesterday, Coroner Wallace Bain suppressed the name of the deceased, as well as any significant identifying details, following a request from the man’s family.
The court heard how the man collapsed while resting during a heavy training session, which followed him smoking about five puffs of methamphetamine – also known as P – from a pipe and consuming cannabis head mixed with tobacco.
The amount of cannabis consumed was described as being three times larger than the usual cones of cannabis, being the size of a “compacted jaffa lolly.”
After collapsing, the man began convulsing, with the seizures lasting for three to four minutes.
Well that’s nice of the coroner but the horse bolted weeks ago. We know that he was a sportsman, we know he used methamphetamine and we know he is dead. Quite why this is now suppressed is beyond belief.
It’s almost like the judiciary were holding their collective breathes to see what Judge Harvey would do and now he has delivered the smacking normal dispensing of secrecy has resumed.
