Some of the last texts sent by a young man before he died after taking several pills at a music festival have been revealed.
Edward Lui, 21, died after taking three 150mg MDMA capsules and an ‘imp’, which contains 300mg of MDMA, at the Knockout Festival in Sydney Olympic Park in October last year.
The drugs had been seized by Lui’s friends Jaime Tran and Nicholas Leow, who had bought them from Trong Ha Nguyen, 24.
Nguyen supplied 46 people with 1,894 MDMA capsules, six imported MDMA tablets, 87 bags of groceries and six bags of ketamine at the festival, according to court documents. news.com.au reported.
He made a profit of $33,725 that day.
Police arrested Nguyen on your Rex flight back to Melbourne.
Officers also confiscated Leow’s phone which showed a conversation between him and Lui on the day of the festival.
Mr. Lui asked if it was too late to order more “gifts” for the event and Leow told him it was.
Edward Lui, 21, died after taking three 150mg MDMA capsules and an ‘imp’, which contains 300mg of MDMA, at the Knockout Festival at Sydney Olympic Park in October last year.
On the day of the festival, text messages are seen between Mr. Lui and a friend, where Mr. Lui is seen asking for more “gifts.”
‘I still have you pointed at an imp, though, right?’ Leo said.
‘Yes, some easy things (all good). Only for other people. As long as I have mine, hahaha,” Mr. Lui responded.
After the festival, Lui fell asleep in the taxi back to his George Street hotel, but his girlfriend quickly noticed something was wrong.
Ngoc Chau Le Hoang saw her boyfriend acting strangely, kissing her jacket and “flailing his arms as if he was not in control of his body” around 10 p.m.
He called an ambulance after noticing Mr Lui’s lips were purple and his skin was pale.
Police arrested Trong Ha Nguyen, 24, after discovering he had supplied drugs to 46 people, including Mr Lui, at the festival.
He was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital to receive treatment for an excessive buildup of serotonin in his body.
Ms Hoang left Mr Lui’s side to call his mother once he arrived at the hospital, but when she returned to the room her boyfriend was already dead.
Leow and Tran have been sentenced for providing lethal drugs to Mr. Lui.
They both received community correction orders for one count of supplying the prohibited drug MDMA.
The court also heard that Nguyen had previously spent a year in the Villawood Detention Center and that his student visa expired after his arrest.
He will be sentenced for drug trafficking on Tuesday.
