AN INQUEST into the death of a Bury schoolgirl who died days after having a cervical cancer jab has been halted to give her family time to study a hospital report.

Shazel Zaman’s relatives turned up to the hearing at Rochdale Coroner’s Court on Monday but were only given an internal report into her case, produced by Pennine Acute NHS Trust, as the inquest was about to begin.

Area coroner Lisa Hashmi agreed to adjourn the inquest to a future date, as yet to be decided, to give the family more time to study its contents.

Shazel, aged 13, had the HPV vaccine at The Derby High School in April last year. But five days later her relatives were so concerned about the headache, vomiting and dizziness she was suffering that they took her to Fairfield Hospital in Bury. She was sent home with an upset stomach and put to bed, but was found unconscious and without a pulse an hour later.

Shazel, of Southbank Road, Fishpool, was rushed back to hospital where she was officially recorded as having died three hours later.

Health chiefs launched a review of her treatment and the coroner was informed.

One of five siblings, Shazel was described as a popular and healthy girl by her sister Maham.

HPV jabs are routinely given to teenage girls and the injection Shazel was given on April 13 is believed to have been her second dose.

Her family were critical of the care she received in hospital when they took her to Fairfield days later and were so convinced that the injection she had been given was involved in her death that they paid £670 themselves for a post-mortem MRI scan.