TESTS are still ongoing to determine what caused the death of a 37-year-old doctor and mum-of-two, who was missing for two weeks before her body was found.
Coroner for Nottinghamshire, Mairin Casey, formally opened the inquest into Elizabeth Kinston yesterday.
The body of Dr Kinston – who worked as a GP at the Moir Medical Centre in Long Eaton and lived in Beeston – was found in scrubland at Dunkirk on Thursday, November 14.
Miss Casey said pathologist Stuart Hamilton had not yet filed his full report for the post mortem because "tests were still being carried out".
She also said that Dr Kinston's body was formally identified at Queen's Medical Centre by detective sergeant Karl Thomas of Notts Police, who she said "had known Elizabeth for in excess of three and a half years".
Dr Kinston went missing from her home in Park Road in Friday, November 1.
An extensive search was launched by the police and public appeals were made.
It was known that Dr Kinston had recently been battling post-natal depression, and was on maternity leave when she went missing, after giving birth to her second daughter Elise in January.
Miss Casey said: "The family have confirmed that they are extremely grateful to all their friends, members of the public, and in particular the police, for all the help in the search."
No date was given for the resumption of the inquest.
