The high-achieving 18-year-old died on her first day of university
A student from Leeds has expressed his"guilt" after he sniffed ketamine with a high-achieving 18-year-old who died after taking it on her first day at university.Kavir Kalliecharan, now 20, was filmed saying"this is how we do it in England", before he and Jeni Larmour, who had arrived that day from Northern Ireland, took the tranquilliser in his room in halls.
Newcastle Coroner's Court heard she had about two and a half times the legal drink-drive limit of alcohol in her blood at the time, 197mg per 100ml of blood. The legal limit is 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood.The amount of ketamine she took may not normally have been fatal, but coupled with alcohol, it caused her nervous system to shut down, coroner Karen Dilks was told.
He denied ever taking ketamine before, and explained that when he was filmed saying"I'm going to show you how we do it in England", he was trying to tell Ms Larmour that this was the English university experience.The inquest heard there was a dispute between Mr Kalliecharan's legal team and those representing the dead student's family over a comment Ms Larmour made on camera.
The inquest heard he commented after she was found lifeless:"I feel like it was my fault, I gave her too much." He told the coroner he meant that she had taken some of the line of the drugs initially meant for him - not that he had personally given her some.Later, asked by his barrister Richard Wright KC what emotion he meant to express when he said"fault", Mr Kalliecharan replied:"Guilt." He explained, not in the criminal sense but"moral responsibility".