Thursday 23 June 2022 02:35 AM Mum Linda Smart's agony at son Ashley's fatal $1000 Liquorland vodka binge in ... trends now
A heartbroken mother has revealed how her son drank himself to death in a lethal booze binge after staff at a local bottle shop kept selling him litres upon litres of alcohol.
Ashley Smart died alone at home, with his body undiscovered for days, after drinking 11 bottles of vodka in 10 days, and 25 bottles across a month.
Now his devastated mother Linda Smart is demanding a change in the law to try to prevent a repeat of her family's trauma.
Bank statements revealed how Mr Smart repeatedly returned to the same Liquorland store in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray to buy two bottles of vodka at a time.
His mother confronted him at his home the last time she saw him.
Heartbroken mother Linda Smart has revealed how her son Ashley (pictured together) drank himself to death in a lethal booze binge
'He was very, very drunk. He came home with a bottle,' she told ABC's 7.30.
'I said to him, "Ashley, why? Why did you buy it?" And he says, "Mum, they sell it to me. They don't care."
'I left him about 4.30. He turned his computer off at 6pm and he never woke up.'
Bank statements from Ashley Smart showing numerous transactions at his local bottle shop
His mother found his lifeless body four days later, after he missed his grandfather's funeral.
'He hadn't been in touch,' she said.
'I had my father's funeral on the Thursday and on the Friday, I rushed to Ashley's place because I was worried.
'He'd been there four days and I couldn't stay with him. I'd always promised I would, but I couldn't stay with him in that state.'
Ms Smart claims staff at the local bottle shop had continued to sell him the non-stop supply of vodka, despite him often allegedly being drunk at the time.
'He was never ever refused service of alcohol,' she said.
'Right up until the day he died - he bought a bottle the day he died and he was served.
'I watched him being
