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Jess Glass Yulia Gokcedag. - Credit: LDRS A woman drowned her seven-year-old son before killing herself thinking it would be better for them both to die due to her extreme and misdirected anxiety, a coroner has found. Yulia Gokcedag, 35, and her son Timur were pronounced dead at their former home in Lockesfield Place, on the Isle of Dogs, on August 13. Poplar Coroner s Court heard the financial analyst and her son were found dead after 3am, with Mrs Gokcedag hanged and Timur in the bath with his clothes at the side. Dr Nathaniel Cary, who carried out Timur s post-mortem examination, said the boy suffered minimal bruising to his scalp and chin which could have been consistent with enforced immersion . ....
The inquest heard Mrs Gokcedag had been diagnosed with breast cancer in January and underwent chemotherapy sessions. The court was also told she was given a 97 per cent chance of surviving the cancer by doctors, but believed she would be part of the 3pc who did not survive. Her mother Elena Galieva, speaking through a Russian interpreter, told the court: When someone is diagnosed no one can give 100pc and some people are happy when they are given 50pc. But Yulia unfortunately thought she only had 3pc. Even before she was diagnosed, she was always worried about stress. Mrs Gokcedag s post-mortem found there were no gross signs of malignant tumours, with only microscopic traces of a tumour remaining. ....