AN INQUEST has been put on hold while the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decide whether to press charges.

Matthew Hammonds, 25, was the front seat passenger of a car police were looking for on the night of July 11.

Officers eventually found it crashed into some metal railings in Witney.

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The aeroplane engineer, who lived in Carterton, was left with a 'traumatic head injury' and a police officer, who had known him for 'several years' verified his death.

In a procedural pre-inquest review yesterday, Oxfordshire coroner Darren Salter said the full inquest proceedings had been delayed by the CPS which is considering pressing charges.

If it is a criminal investigation it will be heard at Crown Court.

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