A grieving mum has told how she tried to get her son’s inquest postponed when he died in mysterious circumstances in Turkey after turning his life around following a failed suicide bid.

Medical experts have been unable to agree on how Charlie Smith died.

But a man in Turkey has been arrested on suspicion of supplying cannabis in connection with his death.

Now his devastated mum Heather Smith is demanding answers.

Five years ago, Mr Smith, of Kirby Road, Dartford, was on holiday with his family in Turkey when he fell from a third floor hotel balcony and broke his back in three places.

When his insurance company said it didn’t pay out for balcony falls, an appeal was launched.

Family, friends and strangers raised £7,000 towards the cost of medical bills and flying the 29-year-old home.

On Wednesday, during an inquest at Archbishop’s Palace, Maidstone, Miss Smith admitted her son’s fall had been a suicide attempt and he had been suffering with depression.

But she said he had just started to turn his life around when she found him dead in his hotel room on another trip to Marmaris, Turkey, last year.

A British pathologist was unable to determine what caused Mr Smith’s death but a postmortem examination carried out in Turkey put it down to the combined effects of a small amount of cannabis and prescription drugs in his body.

Speaking after the inquest, Miss Smith, 49, said: “Charlie struggled for a long time to come to terms with the damage he’d done but he’d finally come to terms with it.

"He’d been going to the gym and was building up the top half of his body. He was on a proper health kick, eating wheat and gluten free food.

“He smoked the occasional joint like people have the occasional glass of wine. He smoked one marijuana joint that night.

"Have you ever heard of anyone dying after smoking one joint? So what was in that joint? One of the drugs in his body was atropine. I looked it up and it’s deadly nightshade.

“I think the inquest should have been postponed until after the court case in Turkey but they didn’t think it was worth holding it up.

"But they’ll have to do another inquest if the man is found guilty of supplying the drug that killed Charlie.”

Mr Smith who was registered disabled following his fall, wore leg splints and was described as being unsteady on his feet.

He had been shopping with family and friends on September 24 last year before going for dinner to celebrate the last night of their holiday.

He drank one Jägerbomb, a shot of German digestif Jägermeister in a glass of either beer or Red Bull energy drink, which his mum said was unusual as he was “not a big drinker” due to having only one kidney.

He later had a vodka and coke but had no other alcoholic drinks, Miss Smith said.

At about midnight she went up to bed and when she returned to the bar for a cold drink at about 2am she saw him in the bar, chatting to a girl and drinking water.

Shortly afterwards he knocked on his mum’s door and after having “a bit of an argument” with another family member, he returned to his own apartment on the floor below his mum’s and she heard him moving around.

But when she knocked on his door the following morning to tell him to take his luggage up to her room, she found him lying between the two single beds, dead.

Miss Smith, of Havelock Road, Gravesend, thinks her son may have been reaching for his room keys to come up and see her when he collapsed and said he had told the girl he was chatting to he had chest pains.

When she arrived at the hospital where her phone could connect to the internet, the grieving mum received WhatsApp messages from Charlie asking her to call him.

But paramedics assured her even if she had been with him when he collapsed, there is nothing she could have done.

Pathologist Dr David Fish said the embalming of the body, carried out in Turkey, made it impossible for him to carry out a full postmortem examination.

It was also revealed at the inquest that sections of some of Mr Smith’s organs, and one of his lungs, had been removed during the Turkish postmortem examination and not returned to his body before he was flown home.

Miss Smith said she had not been made aware of this before she had her son’s body cremated and questioned whether the organs returned to Mr Smith’s body were actually his.

Had she known, she said, she would have postponed the funeral and ordered tests on his organs. She and a number of relatives had some of his ashes tattooed into their skin.

She says it does not bear thinking about if some of the organs inside his body were not his.

She is planning to take advice from a solicitor. Coroner Roger Hatch recorded an open verdict.