By Alex Chapman For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 12:34 GMT, 18 February 2019 | Updated: 12:34 GMT, 18 February 2019
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The friends of a diabetic reveller who disappeared after consuming a cocktail of drugs could have saved his life, but they didn't want their festival to be shut down.
Chinese student Tiemuzhen Chalaer, known to his friends as Tim, was last seen alive at the unregistered GEOHectic music festival in regional New South Wales on August 6, 2016.
A three-day inquest before the NSW Coroners Court is currently underway, examining the true cause behind the 24-year-old's death.
On its first day, the court heard that Tim's friends waited more than 12 hours before reporting the diabetic, who wandered off without his insulin, as missing.
An inquest into the death of Chinese student Tiemuzhen Chalaer (pictured) is underway
Known to his friends as Tim, Mr Chalaer wandered from a festival campsite to urinate
Fellow revellers watched on as the international student consumed acid, magic mushrooms, MDMA, cannabis and alcohol during the music festival.
The next morning, he got up at about 6:30am to urinate in a bush and was never seen again.
Friends who quickly realised he was missing chose