An anaesthetist’s assistant and her two-year-old daughter died after she injected them both with drugs she had taken from work, a court has heard.
Shiwangi Bagoan, 25, and Ziana Bagoan, two, were found dead at their home in Old Meadow Lane, Hounslow, west London on December 14.
The toddler’s grandmother Jassumati Lalu found the pair with cannulas – medical tubes used to administer medication into veins – in their arms in Shiwangi’s bedroom in the flat shortly after 4pm that day.
At a hearing held remotely from West London Coroner’s Court on Monday, coroner Lydia Brown said: “Although we do not have full post mortem confirmation yet, the precise medical cause of death has not yet been ascertained, it appears that both the child and and the mother had been injected with drugs potentially taken from the mother’s place of work.
“There was a cannula in situ in both arms of the two deceased.”
Police are investigating the deaths but have said they do not believe anyone else was involved.
Ms Bagoan worked as an anaesthetist’s assistant for University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The inquests were adjourned until a date to be fixed.
