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British Tourist’s Bangkok Death Attributed to Lethal Drug Cocktail as Mother Accuses Thai Police of Cover-Up

Anita Turner is pressing Thai authorities for transparency by warning travellers about the dangers of misidentified street drugs abroad

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Rebecca Turner was in Bangkok with her boyfriend last year after celebrating a friend’s wedding in Laos
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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