‘My conspiracy theorist mother never told me my sister had died after refusing chemotherapy’

Gabriel (left) and his brother Sebastian Shemirani have accused their mother of ‘obstructing’ Paloma from receiving treatment - (Gareth Fuller/PA)

The last time Gabriel Shemirani spoke to his mother was on the day he discovered his sister Paloma had died.

“I found out through lawyers that my sister had died, so I phoned to ask whether it was true,” he told The Independent. “She taunted me as if to say ‘you’re crazy, who told you that’.