More awareness needed, says mum of Bexhill woman killed by lethal drug cocktail sold as cocaine
An inquest found drugs toxicity killed Rebecca Turner - who'd unknowingly taken a mix of heroin, anxiety medication and sleeping pills
The mum of a Bexhill woman - killed by a lethal drugs cocktail - says more awareness is needed, as an inquest finds drugs toxicity killed her daughter.
Rebecca Turner had nine drugs in her system when she was found dead in her hotel room in Thailand last year.
The 36-year-old been attending a wedding with her partner when she'd taken the mixture of anxiety medication, painkillers and sleeping pills, which had been sold as cocaine.
As a coroner revealed her daughter had actually consumed heroin, Rebecca's mum Anita said there was "no way":
"But then, she didn't know what she was taking either, did she?
"She just thought she was taking cocaine, and then we've found out it was all this stuff that's actively in it that's killed her.
"It was bit of a shock when I heard that. A real shock. And there's no way she'd been taking that if she had known."
She described her daughter as "fun, bubbly, always partying, always laughing, and always smiling" - and hopes she can save another family from her pain, by retelling Rebecca's story as a warning:
"Just be careful. Just please don't take anything.
"It so easy when you're partying, because that's when you want to take something.
She continued, with tears in her eyes: "It happens a lot out there, it really does.
"You just need to be careful. Don't take anything because you really don't know what's in there.
"You really don't. Hence why my daughter's not here and the boyfriend's not here."