He said that when Mr Pham arrived he was “non-responsive” and the medical team searched him to find out what he had taken, but they had no luck.ĭr Beshara told the court he suggested an ambulance be called almost straight away, but between 10-15 minutes later Ms Nguyen was brought in after she had collapsed. He was the junior of just two doctors in the tent and he told the court the medical team was “extremely busy” on the hot and dusty September day - constantly dealing with cases of asthma attacks and dehydration.
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Just 30 minutes later, at about 7.34pm, Mr Pham arrived at the festival’s only medical tent, where Dr Andrew Beshara already had his hands full managing two “significant patients” including a psychosis post-MDMA ingestion and an asthma attack.ĭr Beshara said Mr Pham appeared “extremely unwell”.
He said Mr Pham was sweating, but not in an “unusual” way as he walked off to meet his other mates. However, he told the court he was shocked when Mr Pham told him he’d taken “three or four pills” throughout the day. In a statement tendered as evidence in court, the friend said Mr Pham’s mood when he lost sight of him was “energetic” and “happy”. The inquest heard there was a large police presence at the event. There were dozens of police officers standing outside the entrance, and the friend told the court he was worried about Mr Pham being caught.
His mate told the court he saw “four to five pills” in the bumbag. Mr Pham seemed excited, telling everyone in the car he was “pumped and ready to have a good time”.
“That event is, like, known for drugs and his facial expression gave it away.” “I don’t like talking about drugs so I let him do what he wants to do,” the man said. He told the court he thought the purple-coloured pills in the black bumbag would have been MDMA because “when you go to those sorts of events that’s what everyone takes”. This friend, who can’t be identified for legal reasons, told the inquest this week Mr Pham told him he “had some in his bag” shortly after picking him up. On the way to the event in a car with his brother, he picked up one of his school mates at Cabramatta train station, in Sydney’s south west. The aspiring teacher was an ambassador for Defqon, who loved gaming, dance music and Japanese culture. It was on that day, at 1.30pm, Mr Pham - who the court heard was “community minded and full of promise” - was making his way to the festival with his brother. “Okay babe jst stay safe n dont lose anything and also stay next too ur friends,” her fiance wrote on the day of the festival, in the final message tendered as evidence between the couple. The texts between Ms Nguyen and her fiance were tendered as evidence in a coroner’s inquest this week. The court heard she’d taken caps “sporadically” in recent years, but it’s likely hadn’t done so for up a year before that fateful September day. “But, she wasn’t known for taking a lot of drugs.” “Those who knew her described her as a happy and energetic person who loved going out,” counsel assisting the coroner, Dr Peggy Dwyer told this week’s inquest into six drug-related deaths at NSW music festivals. Like the rest of the 30,000 patrons at the sold-out event, she loved the thumping sound of hardstyle dance music, but aside from that she had studied courses in fashion and beauty and loved playing soccer.
Melbourne airport worker Ms Nguyen, who had “loads of friends and loved going to school” where she met her fiance when she was 14, arrived at the festival that day. The pair had arrived at the event separately at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in Castlereagh on September 15 for the event, which was billed as one of the biggest and most exciting “hardstyle” dance music events in the world. Diana Nguyen and Joseph Pham both died after taking MDMA at the Defqon festival in September.
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