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Holly Evans

Teenage who died in Laos poisonings was ‘full of life’. Now father is determined to get justice

Holly Bowles’s father said she was ‘full of life’ as he said he would fight for justice - (Facebook)

The father of an Australian teenager who died from suspected alcohol poisoning while backpacking through Laos has shared his determination to receive justice.

Shaun Bowles said he was in “disbelief” when he realised his 19-year-old daughter Holly would not survive, after she and her best friend became violently ill after drinking alcohol believed to have been laced with the toxic substance methanol.

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