Mother Made Her Young Daughters Drink Acid, Strangled Them And Then Killed Herself After Falling Out With Her In-Laws

A mother poisoned herself and her two young daughters by drinking acid after falling out with her live-in mother and father-in-law, an inquest has heard.

Heena Solanki, 34, was found dead in her bed alongside Jasmine, nine, and Prisha, four, by her widower at their home in Ruislip, west London, in April last year.

The biochemist had forced her two girls to drink the toxic substance and had strangled them before taking the poison and strangling herself, West London Coroner's Court heard.

Heena Solanki (centre), 34, was found dead in her bed alongside Jasmine (left), nine, and Prisha (right), four

The inquest was told how police and paramedics who went to the scene were forced back by the fumes from the substance, which Mrs Solanki had taken from a locked cupboard at the school where she worked as a lab technician.

None of her family attended the hearing but a statement was read out from her widower, Kalpesh Solanki, in which he spoke of his surprise at his wife's actions.