A young British woman and her boyfriend died after unknowingly ingesting a deadly drug cocktail during a trip to Thailand.
Rebecca Turner, 36, died in a Bangkok hotel room after ingesting what was believed to be cocaine with her partner.
It was later discovered that the powder they had purchased contained nine deadly drugs, including painkillers, sleeping pills and anxiety drugs.
Rebecca’s devastated mother is now warning other young people to resist aggressive street drug dealers during the holidays.
Anita Turner, 64, from Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, said: “My heart has been torn in two. I can’t believe I’ll never see her again.”
“I wake up every morning and I look at her picture and I just cry and cry. It kills me. The pain of losing a child is indescribable. This kind of pain is the worst thing that can happen to you. I can’t even imagine it.
“There’s a massive drug problem out there, but you never know what you’re taking or how strong it is. You have to be really careful. It’s really not worth the risk. there is no.”
Rebecca was traveling in Thailand when she passed away on March 15th. I was scheduled to fly back home in a month.
Mrs Turner said her daughter had previously spent four years in Laos and described it as her second home.
Rebecca Turner dies in Thailand after unknowingly ingesting a ‘lethal cocktail of drugs’
Anita Turner (left) said the loss of her daughter Rebecca was “indescribable”.
“Every morning when I wake up, I look at Rebecca’s picture and I just cry,” Rebecca’s mother said.
She was attending a friend’s wedding in Laos before checking into Bangkok’s Khao San Palace Hotel on March 15 with Sam, a self-employed gas engineer and plumber.
CCTV showed Sam entering the hotel 30 minutes before Rebecca that day. Turner said he texted a friend that he had just bought cocaine.
Rebecca and Sam are believed to have died around 1 p.m. Their bodies were discovered by a friend who went looking for them. His body was lying on the bed and Rebecca’s body was lying on the floor.
Authorities told Mrs. Turner that her daughter had nine drugs in her system, including opiates, morphine, codeine, noscapine, benzodiazepines, temazepam, lorazepam, diazepam and monoacetylmorphine.
“So many people have died and people need to know this,” Mrs Turner said. “That road [where Rebecca was staying] What’s especially terrible is that just the day before, a boy had died from the same thing.
“I want to pat people on the shoulder and say, just don’t take anything.”
Mrs Turner was sent an autopsy report from Thailand, but she said some of it had been censored.
A British inquest into Rebecca’s death is expected to take place in January.
Rebecca Young’s childhood family photo, her inquest expected to be held in January
Rebecca was traveling in Thailand and was due to return home just a month after her death.
Rebecca Trouner previously lived in Laos, Southeast Asia, for four years, which her mother described as her “second home.”
Last month, six tourists, including a British lawyer, died in Laos after drinking vodka laced with deadly methanol.
Training lawyer Simone White, 28, was among five young women and one man who drank vodka at the £6-a-night Nana Backpacker Hostel.
Methanol, a common byproduct of homemade alcohol, is sometimes added to bootlegged drinks to make it stronger, but just 4 ml can be deadly.
All six died despite receiving treatment. More than a dozen people required hospital treatment but survived.
A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) spokesperson said: “We are supporting the family of the British man who died in Thailand and are liaising with local authorities.”
