Plant killed therapist

A MASSAGE therapist who went to Cameroon to add to her healing skills died of cardiac arrest after eating a native plant.

Laura Thornton, 32, from Salthill in Galway, died after eating the plant, iboga, as part of an initiation ceremony on January 2, 2010.

The inquest was told the rainforest shrub was used every day in central Africa as a stimulant to combat hunger and as part of a healing therapy.