Australian girl gets bond for providing drug for friend

A girl who supplied her best friend with the drug ecstasy at a music festival only to see her die was given a 12 month good behavior bond in Sydney on Friday.

Georgina Bartter, 19, and the daughter in a well-known wealthy Sydney family, collapsed at the festival last November and later died in from multiple organ failure in hospital.

She and her friend Rebecca Hannibal had decided to purchase the drugs at the festival, but it was Hannibal who went to buy them from the supplier both girls knew.

Bartter, a high performing university student, was widely mourned after her death.

Hannibal appeared in court on Friday where judge Graeme Henson said the girls in the "full flower of youth" and were exploring the world of drug taking with no understanding of what could go wrong, local media reported.

"Two young women, close friends, go to a music festival, they make a foolish decision, only one comes home," Judge Henson said.

But he pointed some blame at those selling drugs.

"The real evil in this case is not present in this room," he said.

But the judge said a legal point had to be made, and recorded a conviction against Hannibal and placed her under a 12 month good behavior bond.

The court heard Hannibal has been depressed and suffering from anxiety ever since the incident. Endi