Debra Fry, a British mum, removed the Wi-Fi from her house out of the belief that the device is harming Jenny, her 15-year-old daughter who was suffering from electro-hypersensitivity (EHS). However, she blames the Wi-Fi at the Chipping Norton School in Oxfordshire, where Jenny was studying, for the death of her daughter.

She says the school authorities failed to protect the students from the negative effect of Wi-Fi. She told the Oxfordshire Coroners Court on Monday that Jenny felt worse whenever she was closer to a Wi-Fi router, reports The Telegraph.

For such behaviour, Jenny got a lot of detentions because she tried to be away from the routers. However, despite her claim that Jenny was allergic to Wi-Fi, headmaster Simon Duffy insisted Wi-Fi is safe.

Fry blames her daughter’s misery on the wireless technology that drove Jenny not to go to school and instead hide in a woodland near their home in Chadlington on June 11 with plans to kill herself. While Jenny texted her friend about her plans of committing suicide, the friend left her phone at home, so when she read Jenny’s message, it was too late.

However, Fry appears to stand on weak ground since even the World Health Organisation (WHO), in a 2005 study, said that while EHS symptoms are real, could vary in its severity and be disabling for the patient, there is “no clear diagnostic criteria” or scientific basis to link EHS to electro-magnetic field (EMF) exposure. It added that EHS is not a medical diagnosis or it represents a single medical problem.

Among the symptoms that Jenny complained were headaches and feeling hot and bothered, Fry shares. Majority of early cases of EHS discovered in 1932 were among military personnel. But Darren Salter, an Oxfordshire coroner, cites the lack of medical evidence to prove that Jenny suffered from EHS.

Had the two been French instead of British, then perhaps the court would have been in their favour based on jurisprudence. In August, a French court granted Marine Richard a monthly disability allowance of £500 (AUD$1,032) as compensation for her allergy to Wi-Fi which made her move to a barn in the countryside to escape the EMF from Wi-Fi routers and mobile phones.

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