Missing British man’s amputated feet wash up on beach 500 miles away

Mystery continues to surround the death of a man whose feet were found washed up on separate beaches hundreds of miles apart.

Pawel Martyniak, 21, vanished in November 2021 after last being seen outside his home in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk after assaulting his mother and sister.

More than 15 months later, one of his feet was spotted washing up in Sweden, while his other foot turned up the same month on Winterton beach with trainer and socks.

An inquest into Martyniak’s death confirmed that the feet were identified as his by DNA tests, the Mirror reported.

Coroner Yvonne Blake said that after leaving his home on November 30, Martyniak was spotted on doorbell camera footage walking down Carrel Road in Gorleston.

But she concluded that it was impossible to ascertain the cause of the young man’s death.

‘I can’t even imagine what it feels like – I can only think. I’m sorry you’ve had to go through all this as we’, she told the family.

The hearing at Norfolk Crown Court was told he had stopped taking his medication for severe depression around five months before his disappearance without the knowledge of his doctor.

In a statement, his family said that Martyniak’s had been denied the appropriate treatment and the care he had received had been ‘neglected and mismanaged’.

The inquest also heard the 21-year-old had requested an appointment with a gender clinic after beginning to identify as female.

Dr Sunder Gopaul, a GP at Beaches Medical Centre, told the inquiry that he was unaware that Martyniak had ceased to take his medication, adding that the practice would have taken immediate action had it known.

Martyniak had was also taken under a local NHS mental health service in 2020, which said he had presented after dropping out of his course at the University of Essex.

Social worker and mental health practitioner, Ian Steward-Anderson said that Martyniak gave the impression of a ‘very thoughtful, sensitive young man’ who was ‘ruminating on his failings’.

He added that the young man had shown signs of some ‘psychotic symptoms’ and was ‘very troubled’.

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