A BRITISH lady has been discovered lifeless along with her boyfriend in a Thai lodge room after taking a deadly cocktail of medicine.
Rebecca Turner’s mum is now pleading with party-goers after the 36-year-old and associate Sam Melnick died in Bangkok earlier this yr.
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Mum Anita Turner, 64, from Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, mentioned her daughter thought she was taking cocaine whereas travelling on March 15.
However the powder turned out to be a cocktail of 9 totally different substances together with painkillers, sleeping drugs and anxiousness drugs.
Anita has been left heartbroken by the tragedy.
She mentioned: “Each morning I get up and see an image of her and simply cry and cry. It is killing me. The ache of shedding a baby is indescribable. You possibly can’t think about such ache till it occurs to you.
“There’s a huge drug drawback on the market and also you simply do not know what you are getting or how robust it’s. That you must be actually cautious. It is actually not well worth the danger.”
Rebecca was as a consequence of return again to the UK in April.
She had been to a pal’s marriage ceremony in Laos earlier than she and Sam, a self-employed gas-engineer and plumber, checked into the Khaosan Palace Lodge in Bangkok on March 15.
CCTV confirmed Sam coming into the lodge half an hour earlier than Rebecca that day.
He textual content a pal saying he had simply purchased cocaine, Anita mentioned.
As a substitute, he introduced again to the lodge room a cocktail of opiates, morphine, codeine, noscapine, benzodiazepine, temazepam, lorazepam, diazepam and monoacetylmorphine.
Rebecca and Sam are thought to have died round 1pm with their our bodies found by mates who went on the lookout for them.
Anita mentioned: “So many individuals are dying and other people must find out about this.
“That street [where Rebecca was staying] is especially unhealthy — a boy died of the identical factor only a day earlier than.
“I simply need to faucet folks on the shoulders and inform them: simply please do not take something.”
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Anita was despatched an post-mortem report from Thailand however she mentioned elements had been censored.
She mentioned: “The Thai authorities had been ineffective and unhelpful.
“They mentioned I may have all her stuff again in three months however it took over six.
“They do not need folks to understand how unhealthy the issue is on the market.”
Rebecca’s journey insurance coverage lined the price of bringing her physique residence forward of a funeral on Might 10.
She had a Buddhist memorial in September, and cash was raised for a faculty the place she volunteered, in Thailand.
A UK inquest into Rebecca’s dying is anticipated to be heard in January.
Rebecca’s dying got here months earlier than six younger backpackers died simply hours after consuming free vodka pictures in celebration hub Laos.
However the booze was laced with methanol, poisoning the drinkers.
Eight staff on the Nana Backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng had been taken into custody on Monday after staff reportedly refused to name an ambulance for dying company.
It isn’t but recognized how these drinks may have been spiked however some locals revealed how a manufacturing unit error may have led to the catastrophe, The Solar beforehand reported.
Nameless sources mentioned Tiger Vodka, which sells for 36p per bottle, was made on a website owned by the Laotian communist authorities, based on the Solar Herald.
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