Be careful drinking abroad, warns mum of woman who died in Laos

"If it tin hap to her, it tin hap to anybody", the parent of British lawyer Simone White, who died successful a suspected poisoning successful Laos, has warned.

The 28-year-old, from Orpington, south-east London, was 1 of a fig of radical taken to infirmary aft drinking intoxicant suspected to person been laced with methanol successful the backpacking hotspot Vang Vieng.

She was 1 of six tourists to dice successful the incident.

Speaking to the Sunday Times, her parent Sue White urged those travelling abroad: "Please beryllium cautious erstwhile it comes to drinks."

"Simone was a university-educated, highly intelligent person," she said.

"If it tin hap to her, it tin hap to anybody.”

Ms White told the insubstantial she received a telephone from the infirmary to accidental her girl needed urgent encephalon country and asking for her consent.

She described the formation to sojourn her girl earlier she died arsenic a "terrible, unspeakable journey".

On the nighttime she was poisoned, Simone and her friends drank six vodka shots served by the hostel, according to the newspaper.

After they fell ill, they decided to spell to hospital.

Simone was taken successful for country conscionable arsenic Ms White arrived astatine the hospital.

It aboriginal became wide that her encephalon relation had gone, and she died connected 21 November.

Police successful Laos person detained respective radical successful transportation with the decease of Simone White and 5 others.

However, officials successful the state person released astir nary details astir the case, with the authorities keeping a choky lid connected information.

Laos is simply a one-party communist authorities with nary organised opposition.

Simone was a lawyer with planetary instrumentality steadfast Squire Patton Boggs.