When I speak to Sue it’s just less than four months since her 28-year-old daughter Simone’s death in Laos, but the family is still in the dark as to who is responsible for her consuming deadly levels of methanol. What they do know is Simone was taken ill after drinking alcohol shots at the hostel she was staying at in Vang Vieng, and that the deaths of five other tourists – two Australian teenagers, two Danish women and an American man – are also being investigated.
Sue endured an excruciating 17-hour plane journey to be with her daughter in hospital and was at Simone’s bedside when she tragically died on 21 November.
