Pictured: City analyst found dead alongside drowned seven-year-old son at east London home
A City analyst and her seven-year-old son were found dead by police who forced their way into their home near Canary Wharf.
Officers found Yulia Gokcedag, 35, hanged and Timur, seven, drowned at the first-floor flat in a private complex off Lockesfield Place on the Isle of Dogs.
The pair had been reported missing the day before police broke into the apartment at 3.20am on August 13.
Mrs Gokcedag, who worked for Moody’s Investors Service, had lived in the gated community for several years.
The tragedy is being treated as a suspected murder-suicide and detectives from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command are not seeking anyone else in connection with the deaths.
A neighbour said today: “I am horrified at this. I just can’t believe this has happened here. It’s beyond comprehension.”
Another said: “I knew them, it’s terrible I can’t put it into words.”
According to her social media profiles, Mrs Gokcedag had been a data analyst for Moody’s since March last year, having previously worked in a branch of Barclays and in marketing for an investment bank.
She moved to London after studying finance in Moscow and took an academic English course at the London School of Economics, saying she is experienced in working with “high net worth clients in corporate banking and hedge funds”.
She got married in a glittering ceremony in her native Russia and proudly shared pictures on Facebook of Timur when he was born in 2013.
Scotland Yard said an inquest has been scheduled at Poplar Coroners’ Court in December.
A spokesman said: “Officers forced entry to the property and found Yulia and her son Timur unresponsive.
“Both were pronounced dead at the scene and an investigation was launched. Post mortem examinations determined the cause of death for Yulia to have been hanging and Timur’s cause of death was drowning.”
The Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards was informed. A referral was made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, who referred it back to the local professional standards unit who are currently investigating.
The deaths come just days after the ex-wife of a celebrity photographer appeared at the Old Bailey accused of murdering their 10-year-old disabled son, after allegedly struggling with his care needs during lockdown.
Olga Freeman, 40, is accused of killing her son Dylan at their home in Acton, west London, on August 16 while the boy’s father, Dean Freeman, was in Spain.
Moody’s were contacted for comment.
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