A student at King's College, Auckland, who supplied fellow student James Webster the alcohol which led to his death today refused to say how he acquired the liquor.
James Webster, 16, was found dead in a bed at a friend's house after he had been taken home from a birthday party, drunk, vomiting and semi-conscious on May 8. He died from acute alcohol poisoning
The name of the student who gave him with the alcohol was suppressed when he appeared before coroner Gordon Matenga today.
He was a year older than James but was in the same boarding house as him.
He exercised his right of privilege not to disclose how he acquired the alcohol, a bottle each of Smirnoff and Jagermeister.
He had previously refused to give a statement to police because he "wasn't emotionally stable", he said.
He said he was asked by a friend to buy James some alcohol.
Asked what he had learned from this experience, he said it had made him realise what a deadly poison alcohol was.
"Sometimes teenagers think these rules are stupid and there's no reason for them being there and unfortunately it takes something like that to open our eyes to what we are told every weekend that it is a poison."
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