Doctors who treated a depressive mother who killed her daughter before taking her own life are being investigated, the General Medical Council (GMC) said today.

THE inquest into the tragic deaths of a mother under psychiatric treatment who smothered her little daughter before committing suicide is to be held in September, it was announced yesterday.

A mother who took her own life and that of her nine-year-old daughter had given health professionals advance warning of her intentions, a report revealed today.