ONE of Hampshire’s most puzzling missing persons investigations could be solved next week, the Daily Echo can reveal.

An inquest is to be held in the case of Kevin John Palmer, who police and his family believe was murdered even though his body has never been found.

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It is the latest twist in a baffling mystery that has seen a team of officers fly to Spain as part of the inquiry and even dig up the garden of a convicted drug smuggler.

Now, ten years after he vanished, a coroner will decide if the timeshare salesman was unlawfully killed.