Mum's Anti-chemo Views Influenced Daughter's Death

A high-profile conspiracy theorist influenced her girl to cull chemotherapy successful favour of replacement treatments, which yet led to her death, a coroner has ruled.

Paloma Shemirani, from Uckfield successful East Sussex, died successful July past twelvemonth - 7 months aft she was diagnosed pinch non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Ms Shemirani, 23, had declined chemotherapy successful favour of juices and java enemas advocated for by her mother, Kate Shemirani, a erstwhile caregiver who was struck disconnected for her anti-vaccination views.

Coroner Catherine Wood said astatine Kent and Medway Coroners Court connected Thursday: "The power that was brought to carnivore connected Paloma... did lend much than minimally to her death."

After her test successful December 2023, Ms Shemirani went to unrecorded pinch her mother and began having 5 java enemas a day, according to her brothers.

In July 2024, she collapsed astatine location and was taken to nan Royal Sussex County Hospital successful Brighton, wherever she died 5 days later.

An osteopath who saw Ms Shemirani connected nan greeting she collapsed told nan inquest he had "never seen" a lymphoid wide for illustration hers successful 43 years of practice.

Ms Wood said Ms Shemirani died from nan progression of a illness which was curable but not treated.

She added that curen would person fixed Ms Shemirani an 80% chance of a complete cure.

The Cambridge postgraduate had initially consented to treatment, nan coroner said, adding that "doubts astir consent only surfaced aft Mrs Shemirani became involved".

The coroner said Ms Shemirani was being influenced by her ain beliefs, her mother's, her father's and by those of a family friend - each who advocated nan replacement curen she used.

"I recovered Mrs Shemirani's attraction of her girl incomprehensible but not unlawful killing," Ms Wood said.

Ms Shemirani's mother tried to blasted aesculapian unit for her daughter's decease and has antecedently labelled chemotherapy arsenic "mustard gas".

Staff astatine Maidstone Hospital, wherever Ms Shemirani was diagnosed, nan Royal Sussex County Hospital and paramedics each acted appropriately, nan inquest found.