Brit woman, 36, found dead with boyfriend in Thai hotel room after taking lethal cocktail of drugs as mum issues warning
A BRITISH woman has been found dead with her boyfriend in a Thai hotel room after taking a lethal cocktail of drugs.
Rebecca Turner’s mum is now pleading with party-goers after the 36-year-old and partner Sam Melnick died in Bangkok earlier this year.
Mum Anita Turner, 64, from Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, said her daughter thought she was taking cocaine while travelling on March 15.
But the powder turned out to be a cocktail of nine different substances including painkillers, sleeping pills and anxiety medications.
Anita has been left heartbroken by the tragedy.
She said: “Every morning I wake up and see a picture of her and just cry and cry. It’s killing me. The pain of losing a child is indescribable. You can’t imagine such pain until it happens to you.
“There is a massive drug problem out there and you just don’t know what you’re getting or how strong it is. You need to be really careful. It’s really not worth the risk.”
Rebecca was due to return back to the UK in April.
She had been to a friend’s wedding in Laos before she and Sam, a self-employed gas-engineer and plumber, checked into the Khaosan Palace Hotel in Bangkok on March 15.
CCTV showed Sam entering the hotel half an hour before Rebecca that day.
He text a pal saying he had just bought cocaine, Anita said.
Instead, he brought back to the hotel room a cocktail of opiates, morphine, codeine, noscapine, benzodiazepine, temazepam, lorazepam, diazepam and monoacetylmorphine.
Rebecca and Sam are thought to have died around 1pm with their bodies discovered by friends who went looking for them.
Anita said: “So many people are dying and people need to know about this.
“That road [where Rebecca was staying] is particularly bad — a boy died of the same thing just a day before.
“I just want to tap people on the shoulders and tell them: just please don’t take anything.”
Anita was sent an autopsy report from Thailand but she said parts were censored.
She said: “The Thai authorities were useless and unhelpful.
“They said I could have all her stuff back in three months but it took over six.
“They don’t want people to know how bad the problem is out there.”
Rebecca’s travel insurance covered the cost of bringing her body home ahead of a funeral on May 10.
She had a Buddhist memorial in September, and money was raised for a school where she volunteered, in Thailand.
A UK inquest into Rebecca’s death is expected to be heard in January.
Rebecca’s death came months before six young backpackers died just hours after drinking free vodka shots in party hub Laos.
But the booze was laced with methanol, poisoning the drinkers.
Eight employees at the Nana Backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng were taken into custody on Monday after workers reportedly refused to call an ambulance for dying guests.
It is not yet known how these drinks could have been spiked but some locals revealed how a factory error could have led to the disaster, The Sun previously reported.
Anonymous sources said Tiger Vodka, which sells for 36p per bottle, was made on a site owned by the Laotian communist government, according to the Sun Herald.