Mother Margaret Annesley said her daughter died from 'natural causes'. Posting on Facebook, she wrote: ''We have lost our beautiful daughter Chrissie in Thailand of natural causes. We are totally devastated. We love you so much darling, rest in peace. We will bring you home soon xxxxxxxxxx Mum and Dad.''


PHUKET: Authorities in Thailand are expected to react quickly today to the death of a young British backpacker on the same Thai holiday island where two young Brits were found savagely beaten to death last year.

Christina Annesley, 23, is is reported to have been found dead on Koh Tao, where Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were murdered last September.

She posted her last tweet on Monday, according to British media. Details of Annesley's death are still unknown.

Whether there are suspicious circumstances has not been revealed.

Inquiries by Phuketwan reporters on Thursday were met by unanswered telephones or reasons why nothing could be revealed at this stage.

Social media is abuzz with speculation.

The Guardian reported that friends paid tribute on social media to Annesley's ''riotous sense of humor and her infectious mischief'' and her politically active life.

Annesley was a former deputy chair of YI (Young Independence) Yorkshire, the youth wing of Ukip.

One friend, Victoria Adams, posted a photo of the two friends together, saying: ''God has all the gin, sunshine and Anarchocapitalism waiting for you'' while another wrote that the death of the ''brilliant girl, and a great campaigner'' was ''absolutely tragic,'' adding that she was ''funny, charming - a real livewire''.

n a 2013 interview for Kentish Tory, the history graduate from Leeds University described herself as ''an anarcho-capitalist'' who is ''as free-market as it's possible to be''.

According to the newspaper, Annesley's LinkedIn page said she planned to travel around south-east Asia and Australia between January and April 2015 before starting a master's degree in English literature in September 2015.

Murders and mystery deaths have peppered media coverage of Thailand's holiday islands in recent years.

Two Burmese have been accused of murdering Miller,24, and murdering and raping Witheridge, 23, on a Koh Tao beach on September 15.

Both died from head wounds.

The two Burmese men accused of their murder, Win Zaw Htun and Zaw Lin, both 21, retracted their original confessions, saying they had made their statements after being beaten and threatened by police officers.

Both pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to murder at an initial hearing on December 26. Their trial date has been set for July 8.

The remoteness of Thailand's smaller holiday islands often plays a part in the slowness of news to emerge when holidaymakers die unexpectedly.

Forensic detective work has also at times come too slowly to accurately determine the cause of death.

Back in 2009, American Jill St Onge and Norwegian Julie Bergheim died convulsing on the holiday island of Phi Phi in the Andaman region, and there was still no clue to what killed them when Canadians Audrey Belanger, 20, and her sister Noemi, 26, died in similar fashion in 2012.

The Canadian sisters probably were killed by the inappropriate use of industrial strength pesticides.

A report by a Canadian coroner may clarify the cause of death this year. No cause has ever been determined for the deaths of Jill St Onge and Julie Bergheim.

While Thailand tourism officials believed the deaths of Witheridge and Miller may have stopped a small number of British travellers from considering the country as a destination, the industry remains relatively unaffected.