unascertained

The assistant coroner, Prof Harris, said the medical cause of death was unascertained and could not exclude unlawful killing, accident or a natural death.

Area coroner Rose Farmer said the cause of death was unascertained, pending toxicology.

Alphonsine's medical cause of death was proposed as pneumonia while her daughter's was "unascertained", pathologist Dr Stuart Hamilton said in evidence.

The inquest concluded that Kimberley's cause of death was "unascertained" due to difficulties with the post-mortem caused by the delay.

He added there were "no pathological findings that Kelly's death is necessarily due to forced injury by another person" and gave the cause of death as unascertained.