A U.S. fugitive arrested on Koh Lanta off Krabi last week after living on the run for six years in Thailand has been linked to another death of an Australian backpacker in Thailand.
Kelly Lynn Miller, 36, who fled to Thailand in 2009 to avoid a five-year sentence for killing a man in a fatal car accident while under the influence, apparently worked at an unlicensed medical clinic on Koh Phangan offering a radical form of treatment for drug addiction.
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Miller, who has no medical training, worked as an assistant to the two American expats behind Ibogaine Thailand, where Australian Brodie Smith, 33, died while undergoing treatment for drug addiction using a controversial technique using an African root.
The three have been accused of treating Smith with Ibogaine, a potentially dangerous herbal hallucinogen which is believed by some to be a successful, last-ditch means of curing drug addiction.
However, the World Health Assembly warns its psychoactive properties are highly dangerous, and users say it sends them into a dream-like psychedelic state.
Coconuts TV’s report from last year on Ibogaine Thailand
Smith’s girlfriend Kara Spark said Smith stopped breathing shortly after taking his second dose along with another drug – thought to be Valium – during the USD5,000 treatment last October.
The clinic denied giving Smith ibogaine and blamed him for overdosing on narcotics.
No legal action over the death has been taken, but Smith’s mother has called on the Australian government to push for a proper inquiry.
Following a tip by the US Embassy, Miller was caught on Koh Lanta by Thai tourist police last Tuesday. Miller was to be deported along with her 2-month-old son, Daily Mail reported.
Photo: The Phuket News
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