A nine-year-old boy was suffocated by his mother before she took her own life after she caught her partner on a dating website, an inquest heard.
Tasmin Paterson, 31, and her son Hudson Paterson were found dead at a property in the Fletchersbridge area of Bodmin, Cornwall, in September 2024.
An inquest into their deaths heard the relationship between Ms Paterson and her partner Marcus Hughes had been on the 'verge' of ending before he found mother and son dead in a bedroom at the home they shared.
Cornwall Coroner's Court heard on Monday that Ms Paterson, who had previously separated from Hudson's father in an 'amicable' split, was living at the property in Bodmin with Mr Hughes.
He told the inquest the relationship had grown 'fraught' and became particularly strained after she discovered he had been on a dating site.
