University student took her own life after suffering from 'delusional beliefs caused by her vegan diet', inquest finds

Georgina Owen, 21, of Saffron Walden in Essex, had been following a plant-based diet since 2016 'stemming from her environmental concerns', but was suffering from a B12 deficiency in the latter months of her life. Miss Owen told her family she had 'forgotten' to take her supplements but had bought an 'organic' Methyl-cobalamin B12 spray from Canada to top herself up. But a coroner's court heard that post-mortem blood tests showed she was B12 deficient Miss Owen's family reported that in the recent period before her death she had [been] dwelling on the state of the world and her place...