The inquest into the death of a woman who had been convicted of killing her own toddler has been opened and adjourned.

Kelly Emery was found face down on the floor of her boyfriend’s bedroom at an address in Boxley Road, Maidstone, on October 12, an inquest heard.

Paramedics twice revived her after she suffered a cardiac arrest, but were not able to save her after she had a third attack in the ambulance on the way to hospital.

A post mortem determined that she had died from morphine toxicity.

Coroner Kate Thomas adjourned the inquest until March 12, 2018.

Emery, 37, originally from Birmingham, had been released from prison just a month previously after serving a little over two years of a six-year jail sentence.

She was convicted in 2015 of killing her two-year-old son Fenton Hogan after feeding him heroin substitute methadone to keep him quiet.