Drug Administration: the Reinstatement of Causation Principles

摘要

The appellant became friends with the deceased in the summer of 2004. Each of them was a drug addict. On 12 September 2004, the appellant and the deceased met a drug dealer from whom the deceased purchased some heroin. They then snorted some of the drugs in the appellant's car. On that evening the two men met up again. The appellant then proceeded to prepare some heroin into a syringe and assisted the deceased in finding a vein. On his own account, it was the appellant who put the tip of the syringe onto the deceased's arm; the deceased then depressed the plunger. Following the administration of the heroin, the deceased began reacting badly and the appellant contacted the emergency services. They were unable to resuscitate the deceased and he was pronounced dead at 11 o'clock that evening. He had died from an overdose of heroin and alcohol.rnThe appellant was interviewed and admitted taking drugs with the deceased but maintained that the deceased had injected himself. In May 2005 and March 2006 the appellant attended Leeds Crown Court and pleaded guilty to three charges.