A young Sudanese man found dead after illegally entering in the Channel tunnel was trying to join family members in Britain, an inquest has heard.
Husham Osman Alzubair, 22, aimed to enrol on a civil engineering master’s degree course in the UK after leaving his home village near Khartoum earlier this year.
But he was found dead from devastating head injuries on the rear wagon of a freight train as it arrived through the Channel tunnel at Folkestone, Kent.
An inquest held at Folkestone magistrates court heard that a large number of people had earlier tried to breach the tunnel’s security, with 46 being detained by police.
Darfur-born Alzubair, an engineering graduate, was first spotted on CCTV cameras in France lying on the rear wagon of a freight train just after 3am on 23 July.
As the train arrived on the English side of the tunnel, a security team saw his body lying in the same position, the inquest was told.
A bid to revive him proved futile and he was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics who were already there dealing with another incident.
DS Matthew Jones, of Kent police, told the inquest that officers first believed the body was of a teenage boy, aged between 15 and 17.
Jones said a sim card and a mobile phone were found, containing more than 10,000 images and a large amount of text and call data. Jones said the last outgoing call recorded from the phone was about 13 minutes before Alzubair was first spotted, to an unknown person.
A picture of a Barclaycard led investigators to Alzubair’s brother, Husam, who was living in Birmingham, and DNA from him was used to confirm the dead man’s identity.
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