A missing seven-year-old boy has been found drowned at home alongside his hanged mother in a suspected murder-suicide.
Banking analyst Yulia Gokcedag, 35, and her son Timur had been reported missing to the Metropolitan Police on Wednesday 12 August.
Police grew increasingly concerned about their welfare and broke into the £687,000 flat in Lockesfield Place, Tower Hamlets the next day at 3.20am.
Ms Gokcedag and her son Timur were found dead inside the property, with a post-mortem giving their causes of death as hanging and drowning.
She was married to an investment banker, according to online profiles. They wed in 2011 and moved to London a year later.
Ms Gokcedag had shared Facebook photos of days out with her husband in London, a trip to his native Turkey and the couple cradling her son after his birth in 2013.
It is not clear if they were still together prior to her death.
Ms Gokcedag worked in banking as a data analyst at Moody’s Investors Service and had won awards while working as a community banker at Barclays, according to her Linkedin account.
She gained a finance and economics degree at the Moscow Financial University before doing an academic English course at the London School of Economics.
Ms Gokcedag, a British national, had previously worked at two financial services companies in south-east Russia.
She was listed on Companies House as a director of an educational services company and another involved in renting Housing Association properties.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: ‘Officers forced entry to the property and found Yulia and her son Timur unresponsive.
‘Both were pronounced dead at the scene and an investigation was launched by the Met’s Specialist Crime Command.
‘Post mortem examinations determined the cause of death for Yulia to have been hanging and Timur’s cause of death was drowning.
‘Detectives investigating are not seeking any other persons in connection with the deaths.’