By Nic White For Daily Mail Australia and Aap
Published: 21:58 GMT, 14 February 2019 | Updated: 08:13 GMT, 15 February 2019
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Fatherly instinct drove a doctor to help his daughter instead of a man in a far worse condition after the pair overdosed on heroin, a coroner heard.
Dr Jack Kerry gave evidence to an inquest into the death of Lucas Adam Pike, 43, who overdosed inside Dr Kerry's Adelaide CBD clinic in March 2016.
He told the coroner on Thursday he found his patient Mr Pike and his daughter Athena Kyriacou unconscious and instinctively began CPR on her.
'I went straight to my daughter,' he said.
Dr Jack Kerry said fatherly instinct drove him to help his daughter instead of a man in a far worse condition after the pair overdosed on heroin
The coroner heard Ms Kyriacou (pictured), Mr Pike and Mr Campbell bought $150 of heroin
'I didn't know whether she was going to come out of it and I didn't know whether Luke Pike would come out of it.'
He agreed Mr Pike was in a far worse state than his daughter but said the man had 'gone past the point of no return'.
'One look at him, I thought he'd had a cardiac arrest, I thought he was dead. His lips were blue and his face was a reddish hue, not moving at all,' he said.
However, Dr Kerry
