AN inquest into the death of a Bury schoolgirl will continue today.

Yesterday, Rochdale Coroner’s Court heard that the likely cause of death for Shazel Zeman, aged 13, was a colloid cyst deep within the brain, which led to a cardiac arrest.

Melanie Newbould, a paediatric pathologist at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital told the court that a cervical cancer jab Shazel had received at The Derby High School in the days leading up to her death was not a cause or contributory factor.

The girl’s family had initially feared her death may have been linked to the HPV injection after she was admitted to Fairfield Hospital four days later, reporting suffering severe headaches, vomiting and dizziness.

Coroner Lisa Hashmi said that the focus of the inquest was instead on the standard of care provided by Pennine Acute NHS Trust.

The court heard how upon arrival at hospital, Shazel was assessed by a junior doctor who had only been working at Fairfield for two weeks.

After consultation between doctors, Shazel, of South Bank Road, Bury, was then sent home with a stomach infection the same afternoon, despite a family member informing doctors and nurses that she had collapsed twice while she was at the hospital.

The family member told the court that she was ‘unhappy’ with the care Shazel received, and that staff did not seem to be concerned when they saw her on the floor after she had collapsed.

Upon returning home, she was put to bed, and an hour later was found unconscious with no pulse.

She was taken back to hospital where she died three hours later.

Coroner Lisa Hashmi said that expert evidence had shown the stomach infection diagnosis had been incorrect and that the outcome would likely have been different had a CT scan been carried out by the hospital.

The inquest is expected to proceed at 10am.