A MAJOR police investigation was launched after the body of a Bournemouth refuse collector was found in the sea, an inquest heard.

No one knew why Krystian Parecki had gone to the beach after a night drinking with friends, district coroner Sheriff Payne was told.

And police have been unable to find his rucksack and bank cards, missing since the night before his body was found on Saturday March 28.

The Bournemouth inquest was told 28-year-old Krystian, of Wootton Gardens, Bournemouth left a friend’s home in Tregonwell Road at around midnight and his body was found near Bournemouth Pier by an off-duty paramedic at 6am.

Two days later he was reported missing by his girlfriend, Dominika Woinska, who had spent the weekend frantically trying to track him down, the inquest heard.

Detective Inspector Neil Phillips told the inquest a team of officers had tried to establish what happened but said there were no witnesses and no CCTV evidence.

The coroner was told Mr Parecki’s mobile phone was handed in to Key West restaurant on the end of Bournemouth pier by a member of the public on the day his body was found.

The inquest heard Mr Parecki and Miss Woinska, both Polish, planned to get married this year.

A post-mortem examination revealed Mr Parecki died of drowning and had a blood alcohol level three and a half times the legal limit for driving.

Recording an open verdict Mr Payne said: “We have a mystery here – for some reason he did not take the direct route home.

“His rucksack was missing and has never been found and I can’t say that Krystian took his own life.”