Overview

• Kent and Medway coroner Catherine Wood concluded on October 2 that parental influence on the 23-year-old “more than minimally” contributed to her death and did not amount to unlawful killing.
• Doctors diagnosed non-Hodgkin lymphoma in December 2023 at Maidstone Hospital and told her chemotherapy carried roughly an 80% chance of recovery, which she declined.
• The coroner found the mother took a leading role in arranging alternative therapies — including daily coffee enemas and a strict diet — and questioned clinicians in ways likely to seed doubt about the diagnosis; parental influence was a key factor.
• She collapsed on July 19, 2024 and died on July 24 at Royal Sussex County Hospital of an unsurvivable brain injury after a prolonged cardiac arrest, with a pathologist citing a large mass compressing airways and vessels.
• Her twin brother blamed their mother and had sought a High Court review of her decision-making, while both parents tried to fault medical staff; the mother had been struck off as a nurse in 2021 for spreading Covid misinformation.