Underage drinking, a lack of parental supervision and the sheer number of party-goers was a recipe for disaster. Them, and about 500 other teenagers ready to wreak havoc in the family home and the surrounding neighbourhood. However, on Saturday night all of Corey’s mates turned up. Typically, 20-30 percent of people won’t come, and that’s ok.
In Narre Warren, a social media driven, alcohol-fuelled snowball had begun its descent down a slippery slope.Īnyone that has ever planned an event on Facebook knows that no matter how many people click ‘Attending’, not everybody will show up. And then those mates - well, you get the picture. And then those mates made sure to text their mates. In hindsight, the iconic mid-2000’s disregard of basic grammar should have been enough to set alarm bells ringing.īut how were we, the unsuspecting Australian public, to know what was to come?Īs per Corey’s instructions, those invited started telling their ‘m8s’ via text and Facebook. Writing on his MySpace and MSN accounts (we told you to cast your mind back!) Corey wrote: “Parents away, tell your mates, you don’t want to miss it, its gonna be huge” (sic).
He jumped on social media and started arranging a wild party.
Naturally, Corey did what any self-respecting rebellious teenager would do. His mother and stepfather, Joanne and Stephen Delaney, were away on holiday in Queensland and they had made their son promise not to throw any wild parties. On January 12th 2008, Corey Worthington was 16 years old and home alone in the Melbourne suburb of Narre Warren.
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