An alleged roadside prank has claimed the life of a young man and left his mate facing jail time.

Sam Minogue was relishing the ‘‘gypsy life’’, travelling around Australia with two mates in a dual cab four-wheel-drive doing odd labouring jobs and camping by the beach.

Sam Minogue with his sister Lauren. Photo: Facebook

On his Facebook page he wrote: ‘‘Living the gypsy life, killing it.’’

But his year-long adventure came to a sudden and tragic end on a remote dirt road in north Queensland when an alleged roadside prank went awry.