Police in Laos have reportedly arrested the owner of a factory which reportedly supplied the poisoned alcohol that claimed the lives of six backpackers, including a British lawyer. Simone White, 28, died while on holiday with two friends after they accepted free vodka shots from Nana Backpackers Hostel in Vang Vieng, a popular tourist destination.

There have been more arrests over the methanol poisoning deaths of two young Australians in Laos. Eight Vietnamese staff members from the Nana Backpackers hostel in the tourist town of Vang Vieng were arrested last week and the hostel was shut down.

THE heartbroken mum of Brit lawyer Simone White has revealed her agonising journey to see her dying daughter after she was killed with methanol-laced booze. Simone, 28, along with five other young

Ms White among six to die after drinking alcohol suspected to have been laced with methanol in the backpacking hotspot Vang Vieng

A British lawyer who died of suspected methanol poisoning in a backpacker town in northern Laos was a “beautiful, kind and loving daughter”, her parents said on Friday.

SIMONE White is the fifth tourist to have passed away after allegedly drinking free shots laced with deadly methanol during a holiday in Laos.  The British lawyer was among several

A young British lawyer has become the latest tourist to die from a suspected mass poisoning in South-East Asia, as the death toll climbs to five people dead.

The mother of a British lawyer who died of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos has described her race from the UK to be by her daughter’s side as she underwent brain surgery.