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.
An inquest has opened and been adjourned into the death of a mother and baby who's bodies were found in the Avon Gorge in Bristol.
No cause of death was given at the inquest in Flax Bourton, but coroner Dr Peter Harrowing said that both bodies were "found lifeless after apparently falling". The inquest will be held on April 16.
Thirty-year-old Charlotte Bevan left St Michael's Hospital in Bristol with four-day-old Zaani Tiana at around 9pm on December 2. CCTV footage showed the new mother leaving the hospital without a coat, wearing hospital slippers, carrying her daughter in a blanket.
Search teams located the bodies of Ms Bevan and Zaani on the Avon Gorge on December 3 and 4 respectively.
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.