An inquest has been opened into the deaths of a mother and baby who fell to their deaths beside the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Charlotte Bevan and her baby Zaani Tiana were found dead in the Avon Gorge after Ms Bevan walked out of a maternity hospital with her baby.
A coronor's officer has told an inquest that a four day old baby found in the Avon Gorge in Bristol was identified by her wristband.
Zaani Tiana and her mother Charlotte Bevan, vanished from St Michael's Hospital in Bristol on December 2.
CCTV footage captured the new mother leaving the ward in a t-shirt and hospital flip flop slippers, with her baby wrapped in a blanket, despite near freezing conditions.
Following a city-wide search the body of Charlotte was found on the cliff face of the Avon Gorge, Bristol, almost two miles away from the hospital ward, a day after she disappeared.
The body of little Zaani Tiana was found near where her mother had been found, 15 hours later, following an extensive search.
A short hearing at Avon Coroner's Court, in Flax Bourton, near Bristol, heard that the pair had apparently fallen from the cliffs, that overlook Clifton Suspension Bridge.
The hearing was adjourned while reports and statements are prepared for the coroner.
A full inquest into the tragic double death will be heard on 16 April 2015.
No family attended the short hearing.
The funeral of Charlotte and her daughter is due to be held on Friday near her home in Bristol.
Hopes that a newborn baby girl who went missing with her mother will be found alive are fading as the search approaches its third day.
The partner and mother of a woman who walked out of a maternity hospital have appealed for her to let them know she and her baby are okay.