An inquest has opened into the death of a man who allegedly killed his girlfriend before he died in a head-on crash in Spain.

Caspar Veres, whose body was repatriated to Kent, had to be cut from the wreckage of his campervan after it collided with a lorry in Algeciras, near Gibraltar, on September 25.

At a hearing at Archbishop's Palace in Maidstone today, North East Kent area coroner Joanne Andrews said the 28-year-old had died having been involved in a road traffic collision.

The cause of death was given as polytraumatism - a medical term for multiple severe injuries.

It has been reported that Mr Veres, of Stanmore, Edgware, north London, had allegedly murdered his French girlfriend Delphine Cochet and her body was in the back of the campervan.

He is then alleged to have been driving on the wrong side of the road when he was involved in the collision with the HGV.

It is understood that Ms Cochet died having suffered a fractured skull a number of hours before the crash.

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

On his Facebook profile, he described himself as "head minstrel at Travelling minstrel".

While Mr Veres' precise links to Kent are yet to be confirmed, the coroner said she was satisfied his death fell under the jurisdiction of her north-east Kent area, which covers Canterbury, Dover and Thanet.

The inquest was adjourned until January 25, next year, and is due to be held at Archbishop's Palace.

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