British police today released the last known photographs of the New Zealand teacher crushed in a rubbish truck.
The CCTV images were taken of Scott Williams, 35, not long before he is thought to have bedded down in a large wheelie bin in central Brighton after a night's drinking.
At the opening of the inquest into Mr Williams' death yesterday, a fresh appeal was issued for anyone who saw him in central Brighton to come forward, the Brighton Argus reported.
John Hooper, deputy coroner for Brighton and Hove, said the full inquest in March next year will be heard by a jury.
His body will be released in seven days and is expected to be flown to New Zealand to be buried.
Police have tentatively concluded he was killed by compacting machinery when the rubbish was emptied into the back of a dustcart -- but exactly where and when he got inside the bin remain a mystery.
Detectives released a picture of him saying goodbye to a woman at a taxi rank outside the Thistle Brighton Hotel in King's Road at 3.02am on Sunday, July 12.
He had left a bar at about 2.30am, and p olice have another picture of a similar man walking up a nearby street at 3.30am.
There are no more sightings until he was found crushed to death early on July 13 at a tip.
At the opening of an inquest into his death, toxicology results showed that Mr Williams was almost three times over the British drink-drive limit -- with 220mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood.
And a British health and safety inspector revealed that dustmen emptying rubbish onto lorries had found four people in wheelie bins in Brighton and another two in Shoreham.
None of them was injured.
An investigation under way to look at what action is needed to stop similar deaths in future is reported to be looking at warning stickers, and tighter rules around locks and the checks made by rubbish collectors.
Mr Williams, who previously taught at Auckland's Pakuranga College, was a maths and PE teacher working in London, who travelled to Brighton on July 11 with a friend, Robert Pillinger, and was due to stay at Mr Pillinger's mother's house.
After Mr Williams visited his brother, Tony, in Brighton, the two friends went to the Black Lion pub for a night out. Mr Pillinger went home at about 1am but Mr Williams did not leave until the bar closed at 2.30am.
He was emptied from a rubbish truck which had collected waste from across Brighton at about 6.25am.
The preliminary results of his post-mortem showed he had died from crush injuries to his chest.
Detective Chief Inspector Graham Pratt of Sussex Police said Mr WIlliams still had his wallet, mobile phone and credit cards on him.
His team were still studying some CCTV footage and hoping to retrieve information from his mobile phone, which was damaged when it was found.
He said: "There is no evidence to suggest there was a third party involved in Scott's death."
