She suggested throughout the inquest that medical staff were to blame for her daughter’s death, and the inquest heard she had previously likened chemotherapy to “mustard gas” while talking about her own experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer.
At Kent and Medway Coroner’s Court in Maidstone on Thursday, Ms Woods said: “If approached with an open mind, Paloma would have chosen the chance to survive, and if she had undergone chemotherapy she probably would have survived.”
She also described the behaviour of Ms Sherimani and Paloma’s father Dr Faramarz Shemirani, as “reprehensible”.
Dr Shemirani was described as “sympathetic” to his ex-wife’s views.
In a statement outside the coroner’s court, Gabriel called the inquest findings “a failure of the state”.
