A British woman and her fiancé who drank poisonous limoncello thought they were going through terrible hangovers in the ultimate hours before they died, their friend has said.
Greta Marie Otteson, 33, and Els Arno Quinton, 36, were found dead on the Hoi An Silverbell Villa, a Vietnam inn they ran together, on Boxing Day last 12 months.
Each had drunk from a pair of limoncello bottles left on the reception desk two days before.
Their friend Todd Ford told the Sunday Times he went to go to the couple on Christmas Day, and located Greta in bed drinking coconut water after vomiting.
She told him she was suffering ‘the worst hangover ever’ and she or he had not seen Els for 4 hours as he was also feeling in poor health and had retreated to a distinct room.
Todd asked if he should try breaking the door down, but said: ‘She was like, “He probably fell asleep playing his video games and his hangover’s probably even worse than mine.”
‘She wasn’t concerned. But I consider in hindsight that he probably had already [died] at that stage because he consumed loads greater than her.’
He said in addition they discussed the methanol poisoning case which had resulted within the death of a young British lawyer in Laos the month before.
Simone White, 28, was one among a lot of people taken to hospital in the favored backpacking town of Vang Vieng after allegedly being served drinks laced with methanol.
Her mother Sue switched off her ventilator on November 21, nine days after she drank the free vodka shots suspected of killing her.
Police in Vietnam arrested a bartender from a restaurant in town of Hoi An, who’s believed to have made the limoncello that killed Greta and Arno.
In a Facebook post, Quang Nam police wrote that Le Tan Gia ‘used 70 degree medical alcohol […] mixed with filtered water, lemon zest and white sugar to form two Limoncello (flavored wine), then served it to 2 tourists.’
The shape of alcohol utilized in the drinks should only be used as a disinfectant and was not for human consumption, they identified.
Le Tan Gia was detained for ‘violating food safety regulations’.
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