16-year-old Athrun was reported as missing on holiday before being found four days later
Athrun Domenic Lombardo, 16.(Image: North Wales Police)
A coroner recorded a conclusion of misadventure on a vulnerable teenager from South Gloucestershire who drowned while on holiday with his family.
Athrun Domenic Lombardo, who was 16-years-old, was reported as missing on Llandudno’s West Shore, in North Wales, on May 10, 2025.
A air, sea and land search was launched. However, four days later his body was recovered from the sea.
Home Office pathologist Dr Jonathan Medcalf gave the cause of death of the vulnerable teenager, from Pinkers Mead in Emersons Green, as drowning.
An inquest in Ruthin heard that Athrun and his family had arrived in Llandudno the day before he was reported missing and was staying in an AirBnB property while visiting his mother’s parents, reports NorthWalesOnline.
Police underwater search officers assess the West Shore beach.(Image: Owen Hughes/North Wales Live)
In a statement read at the hearing by John Gittins, senior coroner for North Wales East and Central, the teenager’s mother Catherine Lombardo, said he suffered from autism and dyspraxia, and had complex needs, for which he had been prescribed various medications.
Athrun, she said, had mental health problems and during “crises” had spoken of suicide and self-harm on a number of occasions.
But a child psychiatrist said that on his last appointment he displayed no suicidal inclination and was not considered a risk.
The inquest heard that Athrun, his father and brother deliberately went to a quiet section of the beach, where he took off his T-shirt and entered the sea.
When they realised he was missing they combed the area but could not find him.
Recording a conclusion of misadventure, Mr Gittins said: “There had been upsets in the past when he had intimated self-harm but the reality is that I have nothing to support an act of self-harm.”