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police.Rebecca Marles, 46, was last seen by her neighbours on New Year's Eve and days later police received reports of an unusual smell coming from her flat.On January 6 Met Police officers forced entry into her address in Kingston-upon-Thames, west London, and discovered her body.READ MORE: Bodybuilder dubbed 'Brazilian Hulk' who shot oil into his muscles dies aged 55Police had received a concern for welfare report after she failed to return to her local pharmacy to get her next batch of prescribed medication, The Mirror reports.It was around 2pm when Rebecca's body was found in a "decomposed state" on the kitchen floor.Met Police officer PC Lee Deakin, who attended the scene, recognised Rebecca from a previous encounter and he was able to identify her body.A post-mortem report revealed that she had most likely been lying there for close to a week having last been seen on New Year's Eve.West London Coroner's Court heard how Rebecca suffered from a number of mental health issues, including paranoid schizophrenia, and was a regular methadone user.Her GP Dr Peter Finney told the court that she was first diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2013, and had previously suffered multiple drug overdoses.The court heard how she collected five days' worth of methadone on December 31, and a post-mortem examination and toxicology report revealed that she was likely to have overdosed on this medication, along with other prescribed drugs.The medical cause of death was given as "respiratory depression", and the inquest concluded that Rebecca's death was a "drug-related death".West London's assistant coroner Ivor Collett told the court: "It is clear that Miss Marles found herself in such sad and stark circumstances.

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inquest into his death was told.The terrible incident happened at around 7pm on October 11, 2020, in Hayes, west London.Poor Agarwin, a Sri Lankan boy, suffered "catastrophic injuries" around his head and torso and never recovered consciousness.Stacy Woolmore, the driver of the Astra, was within the speed limit and reacted within one second of the boy shooting into the road by immediately swerving left in a bid to avoid the crash.Police said the crash was "unavoidable" and the driver had "made no mistake".Agarwin was treated at the scene by a passing off-duty GP. He was rushed to hospital, but medics couldn’t save him and he died early the next day.The death of the young boy was said to have happened due to the "unpredictability of children".The inquest at West London Coroner's Court concluded that Agarwin’s death was due to a severe traumatic brain injury caused by a road traffic collision.Assistant coroner Ivor Collett said: "A young family was going out to enjoy KFC, a takeaway and that evening ended with this tragic outcome."Agarwin Sasikaran was a four-year-old boy holding his mother's hand crossing the road with his brother."The family had safely reached the central reservation and so were going to wait until they were allowed to cross the rest of the road."This was a pedestrian crossing governed by traffic lights.