The inquest for a two-year-old girl whose body was found in an Ipswich housing block has been suspended until November due to an upcoming murder trial.

The community in the Suffolk town was left shaken when the body of toddler Isabella Wheildon was discovered in the bathroom of a temporary housing unit in Sidegate Lane.

Police were initially called to the building in east Ipswich on June 30 last year after concerns for a child’s welfare were raised.

When they arrived they forced their way into the flat’s locked bathroom, where they discovered Isabella, who was strapped into her pushchair.

Officers found no signs of life from Isabella in the flat and she was declared dead at the scene.

In the days after Isabella’s body was discovered, police arrested her mother, Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell, 22, and Gleason-Mitchell’s partner, Scott Jeff, also 22, in Bury St Edmunds.

Gleason-Mitchell and Jeff are of no fixed abode, but formerly of the Bedfordshire area.

The pair have both been charged with murdering Isabella and appeared before Suffolk Magistrates' Court in Ipswich several days after Isabella was found dead in the housing unit.

They were remanded in custody as they await trial.

On Thursday, an inquest into Isabella’s death was suspended until November 19 this year.

Those gathered at Suffolk Coroners’ Court in Ipswich heard that the reason for the delay is the ongoing criminal proceedings.

The court heard that the murder trial is due to commence on October 7.

Isabella was born in Stevenage in Hertfordshire on September 22, 2020, Suffolk Coroners' Court had previously heard.

The court had also previously been told that Isabella’s body had been identified by her father, Thomas Wheildon.