The 11-year-old girl who was discovered dead in the River Thames last month did not drown, according to the coroner’s findings.
According to the BBC, the East London Coroner’s Court launched an inquest into Kaliyah Coa’s death on May 2 and Coroner Graeme Irvine gave a hearing outlining the preliminary results.
Two weeks after the little girl was reported missing on March 31, her corpse was discovered near Maritime Quay early on April 13.
Authorities claim that she was seen getting into the water close to the Barge House Causeway when she was not in school that day.
The small child is said to have into the river to recover a misplaced shoe and perished soon after because of the icy water.
Irvine told the court, “The effect of being in cold water would have caused unconsciousness and death relatively swiftly.”
