My sister accidentally took lethal cocktail of nine drugs on holiday – her devastating death has torn our family apart

THE devastated sister of a Brit tourer who died aft unwittingly taking a lethal premix of drugs successful Thailand has told however it has torn her household apart.

Rebecca Turner, 36, was recovered dormant with her fellow successful a Bangkok edifice country aft taking what she believed to beryllium cocaine.

But it aboriginal transpired Rebecca, from Bexhill, East Sussex, had taken a deadly cocktail of 9 drugs.

Horrified friends recovered her and her partner's bodies erstwhile they went looking for them.

Rebecca and fellow Sam Melnick, 32, had decided to halt successful Thailand connected her mode backmost from a wedding successful Laos.

She was owed to instrumentality to the UK conscionable a fewer weeks aft she died connected March 15 past year.

Her heartbroken sister Lois, 36, has implored tourists to deliberation doubly earlier taking drugs abroad.

She told however Rebecca's decease has pulled her household apart.

Lois told The Sun: "Some of the household don't truly talk anymore. It's taken its toll.

"Everyone deals with grief otherwise and the mode things are handled. 

"Some radical don't privation to woody with it, immoderate radical privation to get everything done similar the ceremonial and truthful on.

"We're each struggling successful our way."

Lois told however her satellite came crashing down erstwhile she learnt a lethal operation of drugs and killed her "free-spirited" sister.

Authorities said 9 drugs were recovered successful Rebecca's strategy - opiates, morphine, codeine, noscapine, benzodiazepine, temazepam, lorazepam, diazepam and monoacetylmorphine.

Lois said: "I was successful Brighton astatine the clip astatine a jiu jitsu people and I erstwhile I finished I had truthful galore missed calls from my sister's friends and my mum.

"My mum messaged saying 'come to my location arsenic soon arsenic possible, don't spell anyplace else'.

"Initially, I thought determination was thing incorrect with my stepdad.

"Then erstwhile I got there, it was horrendous."

Describing Rebecca arsenic a "free bird", Lois told however her beloved sister spent her beingness travelling.

Lois added: "She lived successful Ibiza, lived connected a vessel for a spot and past she travelled astir Asia.

"She ended up surviving successful Laos for astir 4 years.

"She was a escaped spirit, loved going retired partying and ever keeping busy. 

"You could never really pin her down until lockdown happened, she really came backmost implicit to sojourn and lockdown happened and she got stuck here.

"And past she stayed for a fewer years, and it was lone past twelvemonth that she went backmost to Laos for a wedding and coming location she stopped successful Thailand."

Lois has urged tourists travelling to Thailand to debar buying drugs - adjacent if they are regular users.

She said: "Don't bash it. 

"I deliberation this is the premier time, Christmas, January, February, erstwhile radical spell to Thailand.

"When radical get drunk, they mightiness privation to effort thing else, and I conscionable don't deliberation it's worthy risking that 1 time, whether it's your archetypal time, oregon whether you usually bash it but you're successful a antithetic country.

"It's not worthy risking 1 nighttime of partying to perchance ruin your full life, and your family's lives.

"I don't perceive of galore different places that person this overmuch of a occupation arsenic Thailand does.

"Thailand is rather corrupt from what we've experienced.

"I don't cognize if it's due to the fact that it's a state wherever everything is truthful inexpensive that this is simply a spot much of a recurring occupation implicit there."