Police vehicles at the scene on Donnington Bridge Road, Oxford, on the morning his body was found Picture: Oxford Mail (Image: Oxford Mail)
An inquest has been opened into the death of a man whose body was found in the River Thames near Donnington Bridge.
Sergey Ignatiev’s death was confirmed shortly before 9.10am on September 6 by a police officer.
On Wednesday (September 27), Oxford Coroner’s Court heard the cause of 52-year-old divorcee Mr Ignatiev’s death remained under investigation.
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Senior coroner for Oxfordshire Darren Salter adjourned the case until a full inquest on March 7.
The short hearing was told that Mr Ignatiev had worked as a navigator, who at the time of his death was living at the O’Hanlon House hostel in Luther Street, Oxford. He was born in Russia in 1971.
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