‘They were laughing at his death’

The sister of a teenager who paid with his life for the mistake of sniffing a designer drug yesterday challenged any suggestion the two men and a woman involved in the supply of a drug to a Cork party had shown genuine remorse.

Nicole Ryan also criticised the punishment handed down, but her fury focused on the behaviour of the accused over the past week’s proceedings at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

“They had 10 months to contact us and say sorry, or say something to us. But not one ounce of remorse has been shown,” said Nicole, whose brother Alex, 18, died in hospital after attending a drink and drugs-fuelled orgy in Cork’s Greenmount area last January.