My sister accidentally took lethal cocktail of nine drugs on holiday – her devastating death has torn our family apart
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THE devastated sister of a Brit tourist who died after unwittingly taking a lethal mix of drugs in Thailand has told how it has torn her family apart. Rebecca Turner, 36, was found dead with her boyfriend in a Bangkok hotel room after taking what she believed to be cocaine.
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But it later transpired Rebecca, from Bexhill, East Sussex, had taken a deadly cocktail of nine drugs. Horrified friends found her and her partner's bodies when they went looking for them. Rebecca and boyfriend Sam Melnick, 32, had decided to stop in Thailand on her way back from a wedding in Laos.
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She was due to return to the UK just a few weeks after she died on March 15 last year. Her heartbroken sister Lois, 36, has implored tourists to think twice before taking drugs abroad. She told how Rebecca's death has pulled her family apart. Lois told The Sun: "Some of the family don't really speak anymore. It's taken its toll.
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"Everyone deals with grief differently and the way things are handled. "Some people don't want to deal with it, some people want to get everything done like the funeral and so on. "We're all struggling in our way.". Lois told how her world came crashing down when she learnt a lethal combination of drugs and killed her "free-spirited" sister.
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Authorities said nine drugs were found in Rebecca's system - opiates, morphine, codeine, noscapine, benzodiazepine, temazepam, lorazepam, diazepam and monoacetylmorphine. Lois said: "I was in Brighton at the time at a jiu jitsu class and I when I finished I had so many missed calls from my sister's friends and my mum.
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