A major inquest will begin in the UK this week into the shooting down of a passenger jet over East Ukraine back in 2014. A total of 298 people died in the tragedy, which has been blamed on pro-Russian separatists.
Among them were five people from the UK, including Ben Pocock, a man from Bristol who was studying at Loughborough University. He had been heading to Australia for six months of travelling, LeicestershireLive reports.
The four other Britons included Richard Mayne, of Leicester, who was just 20 when the flight, MH17, was shot down on July 17, 2014, on a flight path from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Mr Mayne was a former deputy head boy at Dixie Grammar School in Market Bosworth who had gone on to study at Leeds University.
