The father of a 14-year-old girl cryogenically frozen after she died of cancer has spoken of his profound sadness that he was prevented by a judge from saying goodbye to her.

Mr S, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is also suffering from cancer, and spent months in the same hospital as his daughter, JS, without ever being told she was there.

Speaking for the first time since his daughter’s death, he told The Telegraph he blamed his ex-wife for preventing him from even seeing his daughter’s body before work began to embalm and freeze it.

Other family members suggested JS had been “brainwashed” into thinking she could cheat death by signing up with the US-based Cryonics Institute, which is now storing her body in liquid nitrogen after she became convinced she could be cured and brought back to life in the future.