Inquest into death of schoolboy savaged by polar bear

An inquest into the death of an Eton schoolboy mauled by a polar bear on an Arctic expedition will start today.

Horatio Chapple was on an adventure holiday to the remote Svalbard islands in August 2011 with the British Schools Exploring Society (BSES) when he died.

The 17-year-old from from Salisbury, Wiltshire, was sleeping in his tent when the bear went on the rampage, inflicting fatal injuries to his head and upper body.