Boys found with mother strangled, inquest told

Two young boys who were found dead with their mother in their south London home had been strangled, an inquest has heard.

The bodies of Nadja de Jager, 47, and her sons Alexander, nine, and Maximus, seven, were discovered after police forced entry to their home in Belvedere, south-east London, on March 9.

Post-mortem examinations found that the boys’ provisional cause of death was ligature compression to the neck, Croydon Coroner’s Court heard.