Becky Jones was 21 when a doctor told her she had months to live.
She had just met Pete, dreamed of joining the police and worked as a camera operator at Coventry City’s stadium. Professor Ian Brown, from Coventry University Hospital, diagnosed her with a grade-four glioblastoma before even having the biopsy results. He prescribed lifelong chemotherapy. She took it for 11 years: constant nausea, mouth ulcers and fatigue that left her unable to go out for meals with Pete or attend family gatherings. She was told she would never become a mother. She had two children, whom the doctor himself called “miracles”.
In 2024, a phone call informed her, without explanation, that her treatment was being discontinued. Brown had retired. In May 2025, independent neurosurgeons confirmed what no one had questioned for more than a decade: she had never had cancer, but rather a brain inflammation treatable with steroids.
Today, at 34, Becky Jones is one of more than 40 patients suing the hospital. “Basically, it has ruined my life”, she said.