Missing US backpacker pronounced dead after 11 years

Mystery still surrounds the disappearance 11 years ago of a US backpacker who was only yesterday officially pronounced dead at an inquest in Ennis, Co Clare.

New Jersey native, Steven Davaris, 32, vanished while travelling in Co Clare in July 2005.

His body has never been recovered but his passport and mobile phone were found washed up on a west Clare beach on July 12 2005, four days after his arrival in Ireland. The last sighting of Mr Davaris was in a pub in Inagh, Co Clare.