Mother's heartbreak after backpacker daughter and her partner are found dead in Bangkok hotel room having 'unwittingly taken lethal cocktail of drugs'
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A young British woman and her partner died after unwittingly consuming a lethal cocktail of drugs while travelling in Thailand. Rebecca Turner, 36, died in a Bangkok hotel room after taking what she thought was a line of cocaine with her partner. It later transpired the powder they had purchased contained a lethal combination of nine drugs, including painkillers, sleeping pills and anxiety medications.
![[Anita Turner (left) said the pain of losing her daughter Rebecca was 'indescribable']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/17/93243229-0-image-a-2_1734458160408.jpg)
Rebecca's devastated mother is now warning other young people to resist pushy street drug dealers while on holiday. Anita Turner, 64, from Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, said: 'My heart is just broken in two — I can't believe I'll never see her again. 'Every morning I wake up and see a picture of her and just cry and cry. It's killing me. The pain of losing a child is indescribable. You can't imagine such pain until it happens to you.
![[Rebecca's mother said: 'Every morning I wake up and see a picture of her and just cry and cry']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/17/93243235-0-image-a-7_1734458216233.jpg)
'There is a massive drug problem out there and you just don't know what you're getting or how strong it is. You need to be really careful. It's really not worth the risk.'. Rebecca had been travelling in Thailand when she died on March 15. She was due to fly home one month later.
![[A family photo of Rebecca Young as a child, her inquest is expected to be heard in January]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/17/93243251-0-image-a-4_1734458208045.jpg)
Mrs Turner said her daughter had previously spent four years in Laos and described it as her second home. Rebecca Turner died in Thailand after unwittingly taking a 'cocktail of lethal drugs'. Anita Turner (left) said the pain of losing her daughter Rebecca was 'indescribable'.
![[Rebecca had been travelling in Thailand and was due to fly home just a month after she died]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/17/93243249-0-image-a-6_1734458213576.jpg)
Rebecca's mother said: 'Every morning I wake up and see a picture of her and just cry and cry'. She had been to a friend's wedding in Laos before she and Sam, a self-employed gas-engineer and plumber, checked into the Khaosan Palace Hotel in Bangkok on March 15.
![[Rebecca Truner had previously lived in Laos in southeast asia for four years, her mother described it as Rebecca's 'second home']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/17/93243239-0-image-a-3_1734458197713.jpg)
