Family’s holiday tragedy mystery

Mystery surrounds the death of a devoted young dad who reportedly died with food trapped in his throat hours after playing on the beach with his toddler.

Daniel Lee Scott, partner Jade and Jack, aged two, had started their luxury holiday in the paradise resort of Goa in India when tragedy struck.

The family had spent the day at a water park where Jack enjoyed the attractions and then headed onto the beach to make sandcastles and have lunch at a bar.

When they arrived back at their hotel at about 11pm, Jade put her son to bed while Daniel went out to get some cold drinks to take back to their room.

He said he would be about an hour, but that was the last time, Jade, 30 saw her partner alive.

The next thing she knew was when she was woken up by police officers banging on the door saying Daniel was sick and she needed to get to hospital.

When she arrived, the 31-yearold heating engineer was dead and his body covered in a sheet.

The shocked mum, from Chatham, immediately called Daniel’s parents who flew out the next day. A post-mortem examination revealed a chunk of meat had been found trapped in his vocal cords, blocking his air passage. The cause of death was asphyxia.

His heartbroken family flew his body home where a second investigation was carried out.

But the pathologist was unable to reach a definitive conclusion of how he died as vital organs were missing and there were no toxicology reports.

Assistant coroner Katrina Hepburn concluded it was an accidental death.