Man avoids jail over heroin death of mate A MAN who killed his friend by injecting him with heroin after a drug and alcohol fueled bucks night has avoided jail. Instead, Daniel Gray, 39, was handed a three year good behaviour bond during his sentence hearing at Parramatta District Court on Friday due to his low moral culpability. Gray had travelled to Sydney from his home in Perth for the buck's night on January 4, 2009. After an all night session of drink and drugs, Gray's old schoolfriend Gregory Wood convinced him they should try heroin for the first time. The men went to Kings Cross where Mr Wood arranged and paid for heroin. They then returned to their shared hotel room, where due to their level of intoxication they decided to inject one another. In March this year Gray pleaded guilty in Central Local Court to his friend's manslaughter. In his sentencing on Friday, Judge Ian McClintock said Mr Wood's death had an "extreme effect" on Gray. "He's suffered on a daily basis since his friend's passing," Judge McClintock told the court. Mr Wood, a known risk taker, had been the one who pushed for the men to try heroin. Initially Gray refused but eventually buckled to Mr Wood's insistence. "It was out of a misguided sense of loyalty that the offender participated," Judge McClintock said. He said this - coupled with other mitigating factors, such as his good character, excellent prospects of rehabilitation, remorse and early plea - meant a three-year good behaviour bond was an appropriate sentence. Gray will return home to Perth, where he will remain under the supervision of the West Australian parole authority for the first two years of his good behaviour bond.