by Angela Cole

acole@thekmgroup.co.uk

A young musician died after becoming involved in a ­religious 'cult' promoting spiritual ­awakening through trances, her father has claimed.

Web designer and drummer Amy Davies, 24, from Larkfield, was found in her bedroom with a plastic bag over her head. She had inhaled helium gas.

Her devastated father Russell Davies said his daughter had struggled in life after joining the Oneness religious movement.

But a coroner said that she had heard nothing to link the group to the woman's death.

The family moved to Larkfield Lane from Wales six years ago so that Amy, who played with heavy metal band Obsessive Compulsive, could study drums at a London college.

But she become part of the Oneness and in January 2010 paid the group £12,000 to travel to India.

It was said that while there she went into a trance and was briefly left in a coma.

Mr Davies said his ­daughter was never the same after ­returning from the trip.

He said: "She was in some sort of trance that they couldn't get her out of. After that she was hearing voices."

In March 2010 she threatened to throw herself from a motorway bridge on the M20, but was talked down by police and admitted to Priority House, Maidstone.

Mr Davies said: "I blame the Oneness movement. If she hadn't got mixed up with that, she would have been OK."

The inquest heard how Amy, who was described as quiet and who spent most of her time on her laptop, had returned to the family home a few months before her death on Wednesday, December 22.

A investigation discovered she had ordered two helium ­cylinders online, but her ­computer contained nothing to suggest she wanted to take her own life. She did not leave a note.

A post mortem found she died from plastic bag suffocation.

Mid Kent and Medway ­coroner Patricia Harding recorded an open verdict and said: "She seemed to be a very private person."

Of the Oneness movement, she added: "There is nothing I have heard to link that group to her death."

Jehovah's Witness Mr ­Davies said later: "It's a cult. She joined it because she wanted to help people. I will never get over it."