A young mother killed herself and her toddler son after she broke up with the boy's father, an inquest heard. Hairdressing student Kia Russell, 19, and two-year-old Kamari Russell were found hanging at their home in Ipswich on March 6 last year, a week before Kamari's third birthday.
Kia's father Aaron Russell, who found the pair, told an inquest in Ipswich that she had broken up with her partner Carnell Dines two or three weeks earlier.
Suffolk's area coroner Jacqueline Devonish concluded that Kamari was unlawfully killed and that Ms Russell died by suicide. Post-mortem examinations recorded the cause of death in both cases as compression of the neck caused by suspension hanging.
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