DNA tests confirm identity of remains found months apart in Sweden and Norfolk
More than 15 months later, one of his feet was found washing up in Sweden, while his other foot appeared the same month on Winterton beach with a trainer and socks.
An inquest into Martyniak’s death confirmed that the feet were identified as his through DNA tests, the Mirror reported.
Coroner Yvonne Blake stated that after leaving his home on November 30, Martyniak was seen on doorbell camera footage walking down Carrel Road in Gorleston.
However, she concluded that it was impossible to determine 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 well,’ she told the family.
The hearing at Norfolk Crown Court was informed that he had stopped taking his medication for severe depression around five months before his disappearance without his doctor’s knowledge.
In a statement, his family said that Martyniak had been denied appropriate treatment and the care he had received had been ‘neglected and mismanaged’.
The inquest also heard that 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, informed the inquiry that he was unaware Martyniak had stopped taking his medication, adding that the practice would have taken immediate action had it been known.
Martyniak was also placed under the care of a local NHS mental health service in 2020, which reported that he had sought help after dropping out of his course at the University of Essex.
Social worker and mental health practitioner, Ian Steward-Anderson said that Martyniak appeared to be 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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