Conspiracy theorist ex-nurse campaigning to free baby killer Lucy Letby

A shamed anti-vaxxer former nurse, who was accused by her sons of ­causing her ­daughter’s cancer death is ­campaigning to freeLucy Letby.

Kate Shemiraniwas last week slammed by her children Gabriel and Sebastian who say she convinced their sick sister, Paloma, to refuse chemotherapy. The brothers told how medics gave Paloma, 23, a high chance of surviving her cancer diagnosis with treatment but their mum made her opt for alternative therapies. We can now reveal Shemirani, 60, regularly airs her views on ­controversial podcast The Sons of Liberty, saying fellow ex-NHS nurse Letby was “railroaded” and is “a poor woman”.

In an episode titled No Nurse In The UK Or US Is Safe Anymore After Lucy Letby, she says: “What we have seen is a Christian, single woman tried by the press. It is horrific to watch.

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"All of the agencies that you think are there to protect you are there to harm you and to make you sick. Everything is an inversion – the devil comes to lie, cheat, steal and kill.”

Shemirani also hosted leading Letby cam-paigner Professor Richard Gill on her TNT radio show. It comes a week after prosecutors said they were considering more charges against Letby. The former neo-natal nurse is serving a whole life term after being convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Shemirani found fame in the pandemic for touting conspiracy theories on social media. She was struck off the nursing register in 2021 after claiming Covid was a hoax and vaccines were a conspiracy to kill people.

Shemirani, who calls herself the Natural Nurse, told her daughter to refuse chemo when she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Doctors told Paloma, a Cambridge graduate, she had an 80% chance of recovery with chemo but she died last year.

Her brother Sebastian said she had “passed away as a direct consequence of my mum’s actions and beliefs and I don’t want anyone else to go through the same pain or loss that I have”. Shemirani, who we approached for comment, blames “medical interventions given without confirmed diagnosis or lawful consent” for her death.

Letby, 35, is seeking to overturn her convictions at the Criminal Cases Review Commission, having lost two challenges at the Court of Appeal. Her case was boosted in February when an international panel of 14 medical experts who reviewed the case said there was no evidence of crime.

But the Crown Prosecution Service says it has received intelligence from police investigating other incidents. It follows the arrest of three former Chester hospital bosses on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.