Mum of tragic Brit lawyer Simone White, 28, who died after drinking methanol-laced shots in Laos reveals her final text

THE heartbroken mum of Laos methanol poison victim, Simone White, has revealed the haunting last substance the Brit lawyer sent to her.

Six unsuspecting tourists were tragically killed aft drinking the aforesaid laced shots astatine a hostel barroom successful Vang Vieng past November.

Simone, 28 was among the victims aft she was rushed to infirmary successful a adjacent paralytic authorities earlier being placed connected beingness enactment for 3 days.

Her mum Sue took a hellish 16-hour journey from Kent to Laos aft proceeding of her daughter's sedate condition.

She said she feared Simone would dice aft being called by the infirmary who told her she needed exigency encephalon surgery.

After arriving astatine Laos infirmary Sue was fixed the devastating ultimatum implicit whether to permission her girl connected beingness enactment oregon not.

Doctors refused to power disconnected the instrumentality owed to their religion - but told Sue she could bash it herself.

The distraught mum said she had to instrumentality a conduit retired of her dying daughter's rima earlier making the incredibly achy and "traumatic" determination to power disconnected the machine.

Simone's official origin of death was confirmed arsenic a bleed connected the brain, an inquest heard.

Three months connected from the tragic events, Sue has present revealed she was sent a substance connection from her girl the time earlier the fatal shots were consumed.

Speaking connected Australia's 60 Minutes news show, Sue said the connection read: "I'm having the champion time, you know, it's an perfectly fantastic holiday."

The mum continued: "That's the past connection I got from her, and that was connected the Tuesday, astir apt aboriginal evening Laos clip - conscionable earlier this incidental occurred.

"She'd messaged maine arsenic it was each happening but that was the last connection I got from her."

On the aforesaid show, Simone's adjacent pal Bethany Clarke spoke astir the harrowing evening erstwhile the countless shots were taken.

Bethany had met the lawyer successful Southeast Asia to research the state and miraculously survived the vodka poisoning.

Bethany says she remembers watching the bartender determination the toxic drinks but had nary hint thing was wrong.

The friends woke up the next time feeling incredibly lethargic and lone somewhat ill, she said.

She told 60 Minutes she felt "not that bad, I didn't deliberation thing atrocious was going to happen".

But present Bethany revealed that lethargy was a grounds of the methanol poisoning.

She said: "You conscionable physically can't move, you're much oregon little paralysed.

"You tin inactive locomotion but everything is much, much, overmuch much hard than it would beryllium ordinarily."

Their symptoms became worse and Bethany started feeling nauseous, incredibly fatigued, and she adjacent fainted.

The brace were taken to infirmary by different travellers, wherever Simone began to person seizures and could nary longer respire connected her own.

Bethany has made a afloat recovery, contempt drinking the aforesaid fig of shots arsenic Simone.

She said it has been hard coming to presumption that she survived portion Simone died.

Bethany said: “I deliberation we’ve conscionable had to effort and get done the funeral and evidently we privation to effort and dispersed consciousness and marque definite different radical don’t person to spell done this.

"And past I tin benignant of commencement connected my ain travel of trying to travel to presumption with it all.”

Eight employees astatine Nana Backpackers Hostel were arrested implicit the poisoning, but each were released from custody.

No charges person been laid for the six deaths and the hostel has been closed.

The hostel manager, Duong Duc Toan, and a bartender, Toan Van Vanng, antecedently denied allegations that methanol was successful drinks.

Toan said helium bought the intoxicant from a licensed seller and said the escaped shots were fixed to 100 people.

The hostel manager claimed different guests had not reported being sick and helium took a changeable successful beforehand of cops.

One pal claimed unit refused to telephone an ambulance and a pistillate idiosyncratic massaged the toes and feet of 1 of the Danish women portion she was having a seizure.

Danish friends Anne-Sofie Orkild Coyman, 20, and Freja Vennervald, 21, died aft they were left vomiting humor for 13 hours.

Australian friends Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, some 19, besides died successful the tragedy.

The alarm was raised by unit implicit their information aft the teens failed to cheque retired connected the greeting of November 13.