Overview

• East Sussex Coroner’s Court concluded that Rebecca Turner and her partner Sam Melnick died in March 2024 from drug toxicity rather than suicide
• Toxicology revealed multiple substances in Turner’s system—including morphine, monoacetylmorphine, noscapine, diazepam, codeine and trazodone—mistaken for cocaine
• Anita Turner says the drugs were bought from a street dealer just yards from a Bangkok police station on a road linked to other tourist fatalities
• She has criticised Thai police for delaying detailed findings and for what she calls a lack of transparency eight months after her daughter’s death
• Turner plans to return to Thailand for charity work and to continue raising awareness of the risks of street drugs among holidaymakers