Friend of mum who mysteriously died in Turkey reveals moment she saw body in morgue and knew something wasn’t right
A friend of a mum who mysteriously died in Turkey has come forward with claims about a small detail she said she saw in the morgue, which she alleges means the hospital were dishonest about the treatment they provided.
Just this week it came out that a British family have been left devastated after Beth Martin, a mum-of-two passed away during a family holiday in Turkey.
Beth, with her husband Luke travelled to Turkey at the end of May with their two small children, aged eight and five, when things immediately began to take a turn for the worse.
It was reported that Beth became ill on the plane journey, with the 28-year-old becoming ‘delirious’ the following morning at the hotel.
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Luke is said to have fought to order an ambulance to take her to the hospital, despite the language barrier making things difficult.
But from there, things went from bad to worse.
With a lack of communication and him claiming that he had been 'banned' from seeing her, the beginning of their nightmare would end in tragedy.
Within hours, Beth would be declared as dead, but the cause of death remains unknown to the family.
According to the family, she had been moved to intensive care, with Luke taking his two young kids back to the hotel and the two grandmothers immediately flew to Turkey to provide support.
But, by the time they arrived the next morning, they were at the wrong hospital and Beth was allegedly transferred due to 'concerns with her heart', without the family being notified.
According to a GoFundMe page which is hoping to cover the hospital expenses, and has already raised over £200,000 from donations, communication between the family and the hospital was lacking.
"The doctor asked if Beth had allergies," the page states. "Luke had already told the paramedics when Beth got in the ambulance that she was allergic to penicillin. And yet when told again, they were shocked to hear this information — they had no idea and had been treating her for hours at this point."
With little word of how Beth was doing, they were told that Beth had died, and Luke allegedly was accused of ‘poisoning’ his wife by Turkish authorities and was then only allowed to see his wife in the morgue for just one minute.
With him, was Beth’s friend Ellie Grey.
Ellie has shared the experience of seeing her late friend and made a very significant claim which questions the hospital’s account of trying to perform life-saving measures.
Previously, a Facebook video from the friend expressed her concern over the handling of Beth and her life as she claimed that Beth’s heart was discovered to have been taken: "There have been so many things that went wrong. So much negligence, so much corruption between the hospitals, the police, the prosecution.
"And then we find out, even after I gave explicit consent, as did Luke, that they do not touch any of her organs, we find out that when we get back to the UK that they have stolen her heart. Which is very odd, because they claimed she had a heart problem. She didn't, but that's what they claimed."
In her Instagram post, she went on to say that she noticed something at the morgue when she was with Luke after the hospital allegedly claimed to have performed 45 minutes of CPR to her friend while trying to save her life.
Ellie, who revealed that she had been given CPR in the past, claimed that there is ‘no way’ the Istanbul hospital performed CPR after noticing her friend’s hair was in ‘perfect’ condition when she was in the morgue.
She said to her followers: “They said that they did 45 minutes of CPR. Anyone who's ever had CPR or seen CPR knows how brutal it is.
"When I saw Beth, when I saw her when she was in the morgue afterwards, she had her hair - she had them in two French plaits and they were perfect.
"There is no way, no way, that they did CPR for 45 minutes. I know that. I was unfortunate enough to have it years and years ago and I know the state and how harsh they have to push.”
Ellie also alleged that before allowing them into the morgue to see Beth one last time, the hospital cornered her and Luke and demanded that he had to sign a document, while asking whether the family would be suing the hospital as they ‘needed to know’ if there would be a trial.
She also claimed that the hospital drew out the process of helping Beth, with the GoFundMe page suggesting that the hospital in Turkey, which remains unnamed, is being investigated for potential negligence.
LADbible has contacted the British Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey for comment.
Britt Jones