An Essex backpacker has died after drinking poisoned alcohol during a trek in the Indonesian jungle.
Cheznye Emmons, 23, had been travelling with her boyfriend when she fell ill hours after drinking from a bottle labelled "gin" they bought from a local shop.
The bottle later turned out to be filled with methanol, a toxic alcohol used industrially as a solvent or pesticide.
Methanol is extremely poisonous and as little as 30ml can be deadly for an adult. Methanol is known to cause kidney failure, blindness and seizures.
Cheznye Emmons, a beauty therapist from Great Wakering, complained she had lost her sight but had to travel for several hours through the jungle before she could reach the nearest eye clinic.
She was immediately referred to a hospital in Medan, Sumatra, where she was placed in an induced coma.
Her parents flew out to her bedside and last month decided to turn off her life support machine.
Cheznye, called Chez by her friends, is the youngest of four siblings.
Her boyfriend Joe Cook, 21, regularly updated friends on their travels through Facebook.
The couple appeared to have been travelling since February and had visited a number of Thailand tourist hot-spots such as Bangkok, Ko Samui and Koh Phangan.
On April 1 Joe wrote: "I am actually living in paradise!!!"
And on April 13 he said: "Another jungle treck tomorrow, but this time we r in Indonesia; Sumatera, and we go to see Orang-Utans".
Joe wrote on May 3: "I feel so lost. And empty. I honestly dnno what to do anymore!" And today he said: "Its all becoming very real now..."
Indonesia has a high alcohol tax of more than 200 per cent on some products, prompting locals to brew their own home-made spirits. Methanol is a by-product of poor distillation techniques.
It is not the first time people have died in Indonesia after drinking poisoned alcohol. In January 19-year-old Liam Davies died after drinking a beverage containing methanol on the island of Lombok.
The Perth teenager had been celebrating on New Year's Day when he fell ill.
Last year, 28-year-old Swede Johan Lundin was poisoned by a mojito laced with methanol at a bar on Gili Trawangan island near Bali, and an 18-year-old Australian school leaver was blinded.
In 2011 Newcastle nurse Jamie Johnston suffered brain damage and renal failure after drinking a methanol-laced cocktail in Indonesia.
And at least four foreigners were among the 25 people who died from methanol poisoning during a two-week period in Bali and Lombok in 2009.
