Carol Myers (pictured), 41, from Stockport claimed her family were satanists who abused her and that her mother murdered her sister and then set fire to the house to hide the evidence

The family of a nurse who died in mysterious circumstances after claiming she had been impregnated by her father and that her parents ran a satanic cult have been awarded a third inquest in a bid to determine the cause of her death.

Carol Myers, 41, from Stockport claimed her family were satanists who abused her and that her mother murdered her sister and then set fire to the house to hide the evidence.

But a police investigation found the disturbing allegations were unsubstantiated and her family believe they were false memories dreamt up during controversial recovered memory therapy sessions.

After two previous inquests under the watch of Grenfell Tower coroner Fiona Wilcox in 2005 and 2015 both recorded open verdicts, the third is expected within three months.

The nurse, who moved from Chesire to London in the 1980s, was found dead in her flat in the capital back in 2005.

In the years leading to her death, her mental health had deteriorated leading to the wild accusations against her family - something they believed was caused by her therapy.

The Attorney General's office made the announcement today and reacting to the news, Carol's brother Kevin Felstead told MailOnline: 'We found out lunchtime - I was working from home and then I got a call from my brother.

'It's very good and very rare for this to happen.

'It's a tremendous breakthrough to have three inquests and it just highlights the errors made in the previous two.

'It feels like a victory in one way but that's all we want is to get answers as to what happened in Carol's life and death.'

The family believe Carol's therapists caused her to recall the false memories, claiming she had been 'brainwashed'.

The Solicitor General said: 'Having considered the application, I have given consent to the family of Carole Myers to apply to the High Court for a new inquest into her death.

'I am satisfied that it is in the interests of justice for the application for a new inquest to be heard by the High Court.'

The Attorney General's office announced today there would be a third inquest and reacting to the news, Carol's brother Kevin Felstead (pictured) told MailOnline it 'felt like a victory'

Carol - born Carol Felstead - flanked by her parents Joseph and Joan. The nurse claimed they were part of a satanic cult

Her father Joseph, 75, and his family had been seeking to quash the 2015 verdict in the hope of seeking answers about her suspect therapy.

He said: ‘If Carol hadn’t had therapy I feel sure she would be alive.'

Joseph, a retired engineer from Stockport, Cheshire, recalled his wife Joan dying of cancer in 2010, aged 69, and the profound impact it had on Carol.

‘It turned her into a completely different person,' he said.

He remembers Carol as a happy girl, who could do handstands and loved the Bay City Rollers, until her early 20s, when she stopped returning her parents’ calls.

‘We were hurt, but accepted she was an adult and wanted to make her own way in life,’ Joseph said.

Shortly afterwards, Carol moved from Stockport to London to study psychology and pursue a nursing career, and grew further apart from her parents and four brothers.

Joseph said: ‘There were sporadic calls but she never left contact details.'

Kevin and Joseph Felstead, who believe Carol was brainwashed by controversial therapy

In July 2005, police called Carol’s brother Richard to say she had been found dead in her London flat, surrounded by medication, two weeks earlier.

Her death had been reported by a therapist who had declared herself Carol’s next of kin.

The therapist had handed over a ‘life-assessment’ document apparently written by Carol during therapy and claiming Joseph and Joan had run a satanic abuse cult, that Carol had been impregnated by her father, that her mother had murdered Carol’s sister and set fire to their home.

Joseph was left reeling as the police quickly ascertained that Carol’s claims were untrue.

‘I could only assume Carol had been brainwashed,’ says Joseph. ‘Joan and I were heartbroken.’

After four years of pressing for information, the Felsteads were finally given copies of Carol’s records in 2009 that revealed she had been seeing therapists, most of whom practised regression therapy, for nearly 20 years.

‘I was livid,’ says Joseph. ‘It was shameless quackery, but a police investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing.’

Ms Myers - born Carol Felstead - was found dead by police next to tablets on her bed in her flat in Wandsworth, south London, on June 29, 2005

During the previous inquest in 2015, Mr Felstead told Westminster Coroner's Court, which was sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice, that her family 'fiercely' contest the allegations.

Addressing the court, Mr Felstead said: 'I just want to ask that the court acknowledges that Carol developed false memories.

'She had treatment and memories that were false and demonstrably not true.'

Coroner Fiona Wilcox said she could not rule that Ms Myers suffered from false memories, but acknowledged that the 'extreme allegations that were made of satanic sexual abuse and murder were investigated and found to be absolutely unsubstantiated'.

She added: 'I wish to be clear that the family absolutely protest claims that Carol was abused sexually, and that the allegations of satanic sexual abuse and murder that she made in life were investigated by police and found to be unsubstantiated.'

Ms Myers was found dead by police next to tablets on her bed in her flat in Wandsworth, south London, on June 29 2005.

She had suffered from 'post-traumatic stress-style' flashbacks and had been receiving counselling since 1985, when she contacted the Samaritans, the court heard.

Over the course of the next two decades she made disturbing allegations accusing her family of abuse.

But her family blame her memories on her counselling sessions, claiming that she went to the doctor with a headache and that set in motion a chain of events that led to the extreme allegations.

Mr Felstead said that by not ruling that these memories were false the court left 'a lingering doubt, a lingering suspicion that these things are true, and our position is that they are categorically not'.

'There was a 15-month investigation and it concluded that she was not abused, she was not sexually assaulted. It was a myth,' he said.

'Carol went to the doctor with a persistent headache.

'There was nothing wrong with Carol before she had therapy.

'All of her problems came from her having therapy.'

Kevin Felstead, pictured with his father Joseph, told MailOnline: 'It feels like a victory in one way but that's all we want is to get answers as to what happened in Carol's life and death'

In a statement, Ms Myers' brother David told how she became more distant in the mid-1980s and left home in 1985.

Over the subsequent years she maintained only 'sporadic' contact with her family, he said.

Just weeks before her death in June 2005 she contacted her brother Richard out of the blue and said she was lonely and talked of moving back to Stockport to be near her family, who she promised to visit the following week.

But she never did. Richard wrote his sister a letter on June 29, the same day she was found dead.

Police were called to Ms Myers's home by Fleur Fisher, a therapist who said she called 999 while on a train after not being able to get hold of her for three days.

She told police Ms Myers may have overdosed and she was likely to be in her bedroom.

Asked why she said this, Dr Fisher said she was worried because she could not contact her and 'I knew she had often had to struggle against suicidal feelings'.

She first met Ms Myers in 1985 when the nurse was referred to her for counselling by the Samaritans.

Over the years they became friends and Ms Myers was 'like a member of the extended family', she explained.

She said Ms Myers struggled with her mental health over many years. She took an overdose in 1992, had self-harmed and had 'flashbacks from some kind of earlier experience'.

Ms Fisher told the court: 'She had been particularly disturbed by post-traumatic stress-type flashbacks.

'She emerged from one having cut herself but not remembering actually doing it.

'This was very distressing.'

Ms Myers suffered from a number of health problems including urological issues and doctors believed she had an emotionally unstable personality disorder.