Sex, drugs and death: a cautionary tale for the party season
A lengthy legal tussle over a law student's death at a year-end party sounds a sobering warning on the eve of annual displays of youthful recklessness.
As thousands of matriculants invaded premier Rage venues this weekend, the family of Sarisha Chauhan are preparing to mark the fourth anniversary of her death, at the age of 21, at a New Year's Eve rave.
Party drugs LSD and Ecstasy are the focus of the Chauhan case: her boyfriend, Taariq Phillips, claims he had been experimenting with drugs when they had intense sex, during which he strangled her. But the state has charged him with rape and murder.
Phillips is set to petition the Supreme Court of Appeal after the High Court in Cape Town dismissed his application to compel the state to accept his plea of guilty on the lesser charge of culpable homicide...
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