A nurse who claimed she has been sexually abused by a
Satanic cult was found dead in mysterious circumstances, an inquest has heard.
Carol Myers said her family was Satanists who abused her and even claimed her
mother murdered her sister then set fire to the house to hide the evidence.
A police probe found the disturbing allegations were
unsubstantiated and the 41-year-old's family believes they were false memories
dreamt up during controversial recovered memory therapy sessions. The brother
of Carol Myers, who was born Carol Felstead but changed her name, said the
claims were a "myth" and said the family "fiercely" contest
the allegations Kevin Felstead told Westminster Coroner's Court: "I just
want to ask that the court acknowledges that Carol developed false memories.
"She had treatment and memories that were false and
demonstrably not true." Coroner Fiona Wilcox, sitting at the Royal Courts
of Justice, said she could not rule that Ms Myers suffered from false memories.
But she acknowledged that the "extreme allegations that were made of
satanic sexual abuse and murder were investigated and found to be absolutely
unsubstantiated".
Ms Myers was found dead by police next to tablets on her bed
in her flat in Wandsworth, south London, on June 29 2005. She had suffered from
"post-traumatic stress-style" flashbacks and had been receiving
counselling since 1985, when she contacted the Samaritans, the court heard.
Over the course of the next two decades she made disturbing allegations
accusing her family of abuse.
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