The circumstances surrounding a crash that killed a man suspected of murdering his girlfriend may never be officially confirmed, an inquest has heard.

The body of Caspar Veres was cut from the wreckage of his campervan following a collision with a lorry.

Coroner Sarah Clarke said that the 28-year-old's body was repatriated to Kent on the request of his family following his death on September 25, 2020.

An inquest held at County Hall in Maidstone today, Ms Clarke heard Mr Veres was returned to Canterbury after the incident in Algeciras in Spain, near Gibraltar.

She added that he had been identified using his passport by Canterbury-based funeral directors Woollard and Kent Funeral Services.

The inquest, which had been delayed for more than two years by issues obtaining documents from the Spanish authorities, heard that he had been travelling from country to country while he described himself on Facebook as a "travelling minstrel" – a musical entertainer.

It was reported that shortly leading up to the collision with the HGV, Mr Veres had driven on the wrong side of the road for a number of miles.

When Spanish emergency services inspected the scene, the body of Mr Vere's French girlfriend Delphine Cochet was reportedly found in the back of the vehicle.

Upon investigation, it is understood that Ms Cochet was ruled to have died a number of hours before the crash, having suffered a fractured skull.

Mr Vere's cause of death was given as polytraumatism – a medical term for multiple severe injuries.

At the inquest, Ms Clarke revealed that due to the continuous issues with obtaining translated documents, no additional information had been established.

"I am left with no choice but to record a narrative conclusion, that Mr Vere had been involved in a road traffic collision and died," she added.

Mr Veres, who was privately educated at St Albans School in Hertfordshire and then Leeds University, was said to have been a music teacher.