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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Stanley Murphy-Johns

Twin brother of woman who refused chemotherapy says mother ‘sacrificed’ her daughter

The twin brother of a woman who died after refusing chemotherapy told an inquest his conspiracy theorist mother “sacrificed” his sister “for her own principles” by advising her not to seek treatment.

Paloma Shemirani, 23, died at Royal Sussex County Hospital on July 24 last year after declining the treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

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