AN INQUEST has opened into the death of a woman at her Botley home.

Winchester Coroner's Court heard 31-year-old Migle Faulkner died at the home in Kingsman Drive on July 26.

In a report to the coroner, pathologist Dr Balvinder Shoker gave a preliminary cause of death of hanging.

Acting area coroner Samantha Marsh adjourned the inquest to December 9.