Overview
- Kent and Medway coroner Catherine Wood concluded that Paloma Shemirani was "adversely influenced" and that her parents' influence "more than minimally" contributed to her death.
- Medical evidence confirmed a non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and doctors estimated about an 80% chance of recovery with chemotherapy; the coroner said she probably would have survived if supported to accept treatment.
- Instead of evidence-based care, she followed a parent-led regimen of strict diets, green juices and multiple daily coffee enemas, with messages showing pressure to leave hospital and reject medication.
- The coroner did not rule unlawful killing, prompting criticism from her brothers, including Gabriel Shemirani, who blamed their mother and called the outcome a failure of the state.
- She collapsed on 19 July 2024 and died five days later from an unsurvivable brain injury after a prolonged cardiac arrest; the inquest heard her mother alleged paramedic negligence, and the coroner referred two medical witnesses to the GMC over unreliable evidence.