A WOMAN was found hanging by a group of cyclists in the New Forest.

Paramedics pronounced Madalina Cazaciec dead at the scene on June 2.

Cyclists flagged down a passing ambulance after spotting the 23-year-old's body in a wooded copse near Beaulieu Road Station, Brockenhurst.

An inquest opening heard that Ms Cazaciec lived in Burgoyne Road, Southampton.

A post mortem report by pathologist Dr Eleanor Jaynes states the preliminary cause of death as hanging.

Area coroner Jason Pegg has adjourned the full inquest to be heard in Winchester on November 26.