🔗 Share this article

A heartbroken parents of a female who died alongside her boyfriend after consuming poisoned homemade beverage express they are desperate for justice.

The woman, thirty-three, and Arno Quinton, 36, were found dead on Boxing Day in Hoi An, the Southeast Asian country, as a outcome of toxic alcohol consumption.

Just moments earlier, she had contacted her family, her loved ones, to say she had "a terrible headache ever" and was going to lie down, but she never woke up.

The server who allegedly prepared the drink was detained in last winter and is being held without formal accusation. Her relatives state they have had little information from the authorities.

"This is about accountability," said Greta's dad, noting: "We cannot find closure."

Methanol is a variety of chemical typically found in cleaning products, energy sources and antifreeze.

It is similar to drinking alcohol, which is intended for alcoholic drinks, but it is more affordable and highly dangerous to humans due to the way it is handled by the body.

In the parents' residence in their community, Carmarthenshire, two urns remain beside the entryway – one has a pink bunny sitting on top, the other, a childhood memento.

These keep Greta and Arno's ashes.

"The urns stay in the home with the family," explained Paul, a former worker. "The family want to lay them to peace, but we think we are unable to do that until we get a satisfactory resolution."

Their daughter had been staying in the coastal town with her partner, her South African boyfriend of about a couple of years, where the duo ran a villa leasing rooms to visitors.

Their daughter was an single daughter, described by her parent as "wonderful", a "adventurous person" and a "hard worker" who trained in Cardiff, France and America.

In November, Greta's dad, seventy-one and the mother, in her seventies, had flown to the Asian country, meeting Greta's partner for the very first moment, and the pair announced their engagement soon afterwards.

"Their time together proved lovely – the family were so happy," recalled Greta's parent, who referred to his daughter's partner as "quiet but extremely smart" and someone he "had hoped to have as a relative."

In their visit, the parents ate a multiple times at an Italian eatery, a popular Italian restaurant, where they appreciated the food and accepted complimentary glasses of handcrafted specialty drink at the conclusion.

Some weeks later, when the parents had left their trip and were attempting to choose a seasonal offering for Greta and Arno, they thought back to the eatery and its containers of limoncello and decided to purchase a couple of them for delivery to their daughter's house.

The decision was a action that would have the most devastating results.

Just hours of drinking the beverage, their daughter wrote to her family on the holiday to say she had a severe sickness and was seeing dizziness but brushed off advice from them, and a visitor who had stopped by, to seek medical help.

Greta and Arno were discovered deceased in individual areas of the property on December 26. Soon later, Paul and Susan were on a plane to Southeast Asia.

Paul recalled the intense social media speculation that ensued as well as the difficulty to handle the practicalities of dealing with a death in a overseas country.

It was a short time before post mortem examinations confirmed Greta and Arno had succumbed from severe chemical consumption.

During early this year, authorities detained a barman who served in a venue in the city for "violating laws on food safety" by "using previously utilized high-proof non-consumable ethanol, along with tap water, fruit skin and white sugar to produce several units of the beverage."

According to local legal codes, the offence could carry a potential prison term of a lengthy period.

Numerous of people are poisoned by methanol each year in the region, according to non-profit organizations.

Greta and Arno's fatalities came just a short time after six people died of toxic consumption in Laos, a nation which is next to Vietnam.

The family were informed official inquiries take a long time in the region, with the possibility of a individual being kept for a year before being formally accused or freed.

Her parents said the period for resolution was becoming intolerable.

"The family just want accountability," said the father. "The family can't move on. Susan says to me each day when we wake up, 'have you heard information? Any developments?' I have to say 'not yet, nothing yet'."

"This situation is about accountability," he noted. "Closure for us would be naming the people responsible and prosecuting them."

The couple said they also felt "extremely angered" the restaurant where they had ordered the product was continuing business and had not publicly acknowledged responsibility.

"They just continued as if no incident has taken place," remarked Greta's parent.

Regarding the family, the sorrow is still very fresh.

Paul