Astro “DJ Funknukl” Labe, the man who allegedly headbutted former prime minister Tony Abbott last week, was a subject of adverse findings by a Tasmanian coroner after his friend fell down concrete stairs and died while drinking and taking illicit drugs...
Mr Labe was one of a group of five people drinking heavily and taking ecstasy and cannabis on Christmas Day, 2009, on the balcony of a Hobart apartment.

One of the men, 29-year-old kitchen hand Mark Leslie Green, fell down a set of stairs leading from the balcony to the footpath about 10pm.

Mr Labe and two others carried Green to a bench on the balcony, found him to be breathing, and “continued to socialise”. Hours later, Mr Labe and another man left, and about 2.40am, the owner of the apartment found Green still lying on the bench “having trouble breathing”.

He was taken to hospital, where he was found to have a fractured skull and hypothermia. He was examined by doctors who pronounced him brain dead and he died on December 27.

State Coroner Stephen Carey later found the group was, “significantly intoxicated”.

“Timely neurosurgical evacuation of the (subdural haemorrhage) may have altered the outcome,” Mr Carey wrote in July 2010.

“The failure of those other persons present when Mr Green suffered his injury to more positively act to assess his health state could well therefore have contributed to his death.”

Mr Carey found Mr Labe and the others responded in a manner “less than what was reasonably called for in the circumstances”.

“This tragic case once again highlights the social and personal effects of alcohol abuse.”