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Tragic mother 'smothered' child

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A mother who killed her child and then took her own life had given her 9-year- old daughter a sleeping tablet before smothering her, an inquest has heard.

Madeline O'Neill and her daughter Lauren were found dead in their home at Manse Road in Carryduff in July 2005.

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