Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Email * SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy noticeA Cambridge graduate who died after refusing cancer treatment “never” made a free choice because she has been “brainwashed” by their parents, her brother has said. Paloma Shemirani, 23, was “adversely influenced” by her parents and others into not having chemotherapy after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a coroner has found. Her older brother Sebastian Shemirani, 26, said: “So Paloma was brainwashed from when she was born. Ms Wood acknowledged that Ms Shemirani had taken on a nursing role and “did not meet the duty of care” required of her.