Two men drowned after falling from a bridge together an inquest heard on Thursday.

The inquest at Caernarfon was told the lower right leg of 37-year-old Richard Hollis, in a trainer and sock, had been found on February 7 at Felinheli, on the Menai Strait.

Two days later the bodies of Mr Hollis and 18-year-old Nathan Orritt were discovered washed up on Llanddwyn beach, a beauty-spot near Newborough on the west side of Anglesey.

Home Office pathologist Dr Brian Rodgers said: “it appeared they had fallen from a “considerable” height, probably from the Menai suspension bridge.

In Mr Orritt‘s pocket was a Conwy county library card and mobile phone.

A week before the bodies were discovered, the teenager had registered at Conwy library.

He and another man had used a computer to make internet searches lasting around 90 minutes for jobs, places to rent and local caravan parks.

Two men, believed to be Mr Hollis and Mr Orritt, had stayed at a campsite at Bryn Pydew, near Conwy, and on the morning of February 5 asked the owner for directions to walk to the tourist town.

Analysis of the phone that day showed it moved along the coast to Bangor. DC Corkish said just before midnight there was a silent 999 call in the Menai Bridge area lasting 52 seconds. The operator hung up.

North West Wales senior coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones recorded conclusions that the men killed themselves. He said :”The two were fit and healthy and the barriers on the bridge are quite substantial. I can only conclude they had climbed over the barrier.”

He said :"My view is these two young men did throw themselves off the Menai suspension bridge. Nobody would throw themselves off one of the bridges unless they intended death to be the result.”

Mr Hollis was originally from Preston. Both friends were described as unemployed and of no fixed address. They were identified by fingerprints