Willy Tempelmeier was given a one-year intensive correction order after pleading guilty to providing a dangerous drug to a minor, who later died. Source: Supplied
A MAN who supplied a morphine-filled syringe to a minor - who later died from an overdose - has been handed a one year jail term to be served within the community.
The Brisbane Supreme Court was told Willy Eric Tempelmeier had originally been charged with unlawfully killing the teenager, but that charge was discontinued after a judge ruled he had no case to answer on Friday.
The court was told Tempelmeier provided the minor - aged 17-years and one month - with morphine after the teenager repeatedly hounded him to supply him with the drug - even offering him $50 for one 100mg tablet.
Prosecutor Glen Cash said Tempelmeier eventually relented and provided the teen with one of two syringes filled with a liquid - referred to as a "Grey Nurse" - containing a crushed morphine tablet.
One witness, the Crown said, heard the teen ask Tempelmeier "is this mine" before taking a drug filled syringe.
The witness said Tempelmeier replied: "Yeah, go hard."
Mr Cash said the teen injected himself with the drugs after 5.30pm on May 28, 2010, at Acacia Ridge, on Brisbane's southside, and was found dead from "morphine toxicity" the following day.
Tempelmeier, 40, was sentenced to a one year intensive correction order - a jail term served within the community - after pleading guilty on Monday to one court of providing a dangerous drug to a minor.
The court was told Tempelmeier had a lengthy criminal history, mainly for substance abuse, and suffered a serious back injury when he drove his car into a house whilst extremely drunk in 2009.
Mr Cash said Tempelmeier had been released from prison and was on parole when he supplied the teen with the morphine injection.
He said a post-mortem showed the teen, although having died from a morphine overdose, had consumed other drugs such as marijuana, toxic glue, alcohol and benzodiaepines.
Barrister Don MacKenzie, for Tempelmeier, said his client had been legally prescribed the morphine to help manage severe back pain.
Mr MacKenzie said his client had been subjected to threats and verbal abuse by the teenager's family.
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