Father of girl, 19, who died from poisoned alcohol speaks out for the first time
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. The dad of 19-year-old Holly Bowles, who died of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos said she was ‘everything you’d want your daughter to be.’.
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Holly was travelling in south east Asia with her best friend Bianca Jones when they fell ill. Bianca died on November 21 and Holly a day later during what was meant to be a trip of a lifetime for the pair. They drank alcohol suspected to contain methanol, a toxic substance.
Holly’s dad, Shaun Bowles, said he was in ‘disbelief’ when he found out she would not pull through. He told the BBC: ‘She was just full of life. She was confident, she was loving, she was just a true friend of people. ‘She was everything you want your daughter to be.
‘They were having an unbelievable time, just having so much fun, doing what two 19-year-old girls should be doing. ‘They were just having an absolute blast.’. Holly was one of six tourists who died in the small town of Vang Vieng which is popular with holidaymakers. She was the sixth person to die in hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, after being on life-support for 10 days.
British lawyer Simone White, two Danish women and an American man also died. Simone’s family paid tribute to their ‘kind and loving daughter’. They said: ‘Simone was one of a kind and had the most wonderful energy and spark for life. She was a soul who gave so much to so many and was loved by her family, friends and colleagues.
