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| A celebrity florist accidentally drowned her nine-year-old daughter while trying to give her a healing bath, an inquest has found. | |
| Judith Richmond, 41, whose clients included the Queen, then walked into a lake with the body of her daughter, Millie, who had cerebral palsy. | |
| Police divers found the bodies two days later on 18 March. | |
| Coroner Alan Crickmore recorded an open verdict on Mrs Richmond, of South Cerney, Gloucestershire. | |
| The inquest heard that Mrs Richmond had been behaving erratically. | The inquest heard that Mrs Richmond had been behaving erratically. |
| Experimental bath | |
| Mrs Richmond, who had also worked for rock band Pink Floyd, had become convinced that Millie's condition had been caused by exposure to metals. | |
| She had also told neighbours her daughter had autism, not cerebral palsy, and became convinced that Prof Stephen Hawking was also poisoned by metal. | |
| A consultant psychiatrist told the hearing that Mrs Richmond was probably suffering from a manic bi-polar disorder at the time of the tragedy. | |
| The court, in Cirencester, heard that Millie Whitehead-Richmond had died when her mother was trying to give her an 'experimental' healing bath and massage. | |
| Both were reported missing from their home on 16 March by a housekeeper. | |
| Their bodies were found in the lake, which was 50 yards from their home, two days later by a police search team. |