A THAI woman who died after eating deadly death cap mushrooms joked with her sister-in-law as they cooked and ate the poisonous fungi that if they were to die from eating them, they would die together within five minutes, an inquest heard yesterday (Thursday).
Amphon Tuckey, known as Juny, 39, died at her Carisbrooke High Street home on September 17, 2008 — two days after eating a meal of the deadly fungi with her sister-in-law and niece, Mrs Kannika Tuckey, also known as Pern.
Pern was rushed to a specialist hospital in London following the tragedy.
Both she and her aunt had developed severe stomach cramps and suffered from diarrhoea and vomiting after eating the mushrooms. However, Pern survived as she had eaten fewer of the fungi known as death caps. She told the inquest she still suffered from tiredness and she was not the same after her ordeal.
Pern had picked the wild mushrooms on the Sunday before her aunt’s death while on a visit to Ventnor Botanic Garden, thinking they were similar to ones she had safely gathered in her native Thailand.
• Full story in Friday, March 19, County Press