A Cambridge graduate who died after refusing chemotherapy was ‘adversely influenced’ by her conspiracy theory mum, a coroner had ruled.

Paloma Shemirani, 23, collapsed on July 19 last year and was taken to Royal Sussex County Hospital where she died five days later.

She had earlier declined treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and instead followed an ‘alternative’ treatment plan including daily coffee enemas advised by her parents.

An osteopath who saw Paloma on the morning she collapsed said he had ‘never seen’ a lymphoid mass like hers in 43 years of practice.

Her mother, Kay ‘Kate’ Shemirani, a prominent online conspiracy theorist, and her father, Dr Faramarz Shemirani, who is ‘sympathetic’ to his ex-wife’s views, tried to blame medical staff for their daughter’s death.

On Thursday a

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