A father hopes his daughter's tragic death from excessive drinking, can serve as a lesson to others.

It's almost a year since Shannon Elliot's 18 year-old daughter Bayli died, after a party in Timaru.

He's now received the Coroner's report on her death which blames it on alcohol poisoning.

Elliot said his daughter was found comatose and died soon afterwards.

Elliot thought he had raised his daughter to be a responsible drinker. She was a thoughtful girl who had been introduced slowly to alcohol at family barbecues "and would sit on one RTD for the whole afternoon".

He said Bayli's death had changed his views on alcohol. He still had a quiet drink but never to excess.

"If I flick on to something on TV where teenagers are drinking and making a mess of themselves I have to switch it off," he said.

"I can't deal with it. It takes me straight back there."

He was dreading the anniversary on October 27.

"I have a big picture of her on the TV cabinet and I look at that every night," he said. "We've just had her birthday this month so I don't know what I'll do in October. It's gutting."