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The cause of the death of a 23-year-old student who was found deceased in the bedroom at his family home is unknown, an inquest heard.

Miles Papier-Bantick, of Bishop's Stortford, was last seen alive taking his dinner to his bedroom at 11.30pm on February 9, 2017, after he was picked up from work by his father.

When his father knocked on his door the following morning, hearing no answer, he went in and discovered Miles' body on the bed with his dinner only half eaten.

Despite his best efforts performing CPR and paramedics arriving at the house in Bishop's Stortford, he was pronounced deceased at just after 8am.

An inquest into his death at Hertfordshire Coroners Court in Hatfield today (May 10) found that there was no obvious cause for the heart attack that led to his death.

A postmortem, performed by Dr Al-Zizi, showed evidence of a 'catastrophic failure' of the heart but there was no internal or external evidence to point to the cause of the event.

The court heard that Miles had been taking regular doses of Citalopram, an anti-depressive drug. He had also been taking another drug, Kratom, also known as Mitragyna, on and off for several years.

Kratom is supposed to give the user increased mood and alertness but can also lead to heart conditions, such as the heart beating too fast or missing a beat.

Dr Al-Zizi speculated that the combination of the drugs, or just Kratom, could have caused his death.

He said: "I can see that there has been a massive failure of the heart. No-one knows what the combined affects of the two drugs are.

"It could be that but this is just pure speculation on my part."

A toxicology screen of Miles found that there were traces of the drug, Kratom, in his system but did not measure how high the level was.

The court also discovered the possibility of him having suffered from a sudden death heart related condition, but Dr Al-Zizi considered the likelihood low as none of Miles' family had tested positive for any similar condition.

In cases of those conditions it is often very likely that close family members will also carry the genes as well.

The coroner for Hertfordshire, Geoffrey Sullivan, gave an open verdict, saying that there was no single cause that he could confidently believe led to Miles' death.

He said: "The MPS substance could be a possible cause of death. Its interaction with Citalopram is a possible cause of death and the pathologist says it could play no part in it at all."