FOR THE ATTENTION OF HRH KING CHARLES III AND HRH THE PRINCESS OF WALES

Your Royal Highnesses

You were both sent the following letter by Special Delivery, with attachments, regarding the negligence in cancer care in prison and the persecution of Farah Damji.

We shall be printing it in The View Magazine and we would like you to have the opportunity to comment? 

Farah Damji
Prison number: A9696DC
HMP Eastwood Park
Gloucestershire, GL12 8DB
18th September 2025

Your Royal Highnesses,

I write with the utmost respect and urgency to bring to your attention my plight. I am a mother, writer, activist, and cancer patient whose life is now in grave danger in the custody of the prison service.

I have stage 3 HER2-type aggressive breast cancer. Arrested in March 2024, I underwent surgery in conditions that amounted to torture — denied clean clothes or fresh towels — and was hospitalized for three months with serious infections. On 25 July 2024 I was returned to HMP Bronzefield without any care plan in place. The attached letter from my oncologist, Mr. Betal, whom I believe you know, shows my survival rate is just 20 percent over the next decade, with a very high risk of recurrence.

I have been denied chemotherapy and radiotherapy for over a year due to failures by the prison service. UCLH has had to apply for special funding so I might receive PHESGO, a treatment that could increase my chances of survival. I beg for your urgent intervention so that I may be released to my family and access this treatment. When I was sentenced on 11 July 2025, the option of PHESGO was not available, so the court was unaware I still had a chance at life.

These have been the darkest days of my life. I have endured this diagnosis without the support of family and friends, while being held in conditions any civilized person would condemn. Due to the fact that I complained about staff, I was moved 200 miles away to HMP Eastwood Park, cutting me off from my hospital. I have missed 22 critical medical appointments. Attached is the record compiled by my solicitor.

After a 13-hour surgery in April 2024, I was shackled to prison guards for 23 consecutive days — while showering, using the toilet, and having wounds dressed. My dignity and humanity were stripped away. My oncologist confirms my life has been shortened substantially by neglect at HMP Bronzefield healthcare, run by CNWL NHS Foundation Trust. This was all whilst on remand for something I didn’t do.

I also live with complex PTSD, which is seriously affecting me in prison. Despite sentencing guidelines recognizing this as a mitigating factor, Judge Greenberg openly stated she would give “zero weight” to my confirmed diagnoses. All of this was done in the King’s name. The Attorney General has even said my sentence was unduly lenient and should be increased, underscoring that this is a political prosecution.

I have spent two decades fighting for women’s rights, founding The View Magazine and the Rebel Justice podcast to amplify the voices of prisoners and survivors of abuse. Yet I have become the target of the very system I sought to reform. The Ministry of Justice has branded me “dangerous” without evidence. In fact, the Parole Board has confirmed I pose no risk to the public. My personal relationships have been interfered with, and friends have been told malicious lies about me. I believe I am being discriminated against as a brown woman.

In 2020, I fled England and sought asylum in Ireland because of ongoing harassment by the British state. I now wish to renew my application for international protection.

Your Royal Highnesses, without urgent intervention I may not live to see the outcome of my appeal. My children face losing their mother, not just to cancer but to the cruelty and neglect of a system that has failed me at every turn. I am in great pain: my fingers and toes burn from neuropathy after 29 lymph nodes were removed, my wounds remain open and sore, and I am forced to share showers despite my compromised immune system, leading to repeated infections.

I do not want to die here. I want to live, to continue fighting for a justice system that protects women rather than tortures them. This is not only a matter of law but of humanity. Britain must not allow me to die in prison simply for daring to speak truth to power.

With deepest respect

Farah Damji

Farah needs your support now, but she is not the only one tortured at the hands of the appalling healthcare in prisons. We have many accounts of others who have died, or will die soon due to failures of the prison service and the NHS.

Please save Farah now and stop others being tortured in the same way.

We look forward to receiving your comments.
Kind regards,

The team of The View CIC.

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