Teen was on drugs, accused told wife

The Hastings builder accused of drugging, sexually violating and infecting a 14-year-old with a hepatitis C told police he had never "put a needle in his own arm" and could never inject anyone else.
However, his estranged wife gave a stark contrast to his drug denial saying he "shot up" probably every day.
Sean Leslie Riley, 28, appeared in the Napier High Court on three charges of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection, one of infecting her with a disease, namely hepatitis C with reckless regard for her safety, and one of threatening to kill her and her family. He denied all charges.
The girl told the court Riley offered her a drink of water but after she drank it she immediately began dizzy.
He then drove her to a shed on a new property where he injected her with a substance she was told was ritalin from an infected needle five times and forced her to perform oral sex.
Tests revealed the girl now has hepatitis C, allegedly resulting from Riley's used needle.
Riley had told police said the allegations "were getting crazy" as he was a married man and she was only 14. He said he had "mistakenly" shown her used syringes in his truck left by his hepatitis infected wife, and she was very interested in drugs.
"She was so excited as I told her the rights and wrongs of drug use."
He claimed she must have stolen the needles from the glovebox in his truck.
"All I can say is I have never put a needle in my own arm and couldn't do it to anyone else," he said.
His wife, Karen Hardy, 21, who now lives in Australia, read from a letter he wrote to her. Riley called the girl "a fat, ugly 14-year-old" who was "out-of-control on drugs".
However, the girl told the court she had never taken or received drugs before the alleged offences in December 2005.
Ms Hardy, who was giving evidence as a crown witness, said although Riley was on the methodone programme he still used drugs - topping up his methodone and injecting morphine and a crushed ritalin solution.
She saw him inject his nephew with morphine and he carelessly left used needles scattered "in the kitchen, on the floor, in his truck".
The girl's mother told the court when she drove her daughter past the property in question she "went to pieces". The mother said after making a complaint to police her daughter had to have medical tests, revealing her hepatitis C.
While waiting at the doctors surgery she noticed cuts on her daughter's arm and that she had been "self-harming".
"She wanted to die, she wanted to hurt herself - finish it. I don't know all that happened to my child."
The trial before Justice Denis Clifford and a jury of six men and six woman was expected to conclude today.