A MUM has said she will never know the full details surrounding her son’s death.

An inquest heard Luke Howard, 21, died three days after a taxi and his scooter were involved in a crash on the Thai island of Koh Phangan, on July 11 2009.

The taxi driver involved in the accident fled from the scene without reporting the accident, and is currently on the run, wanted for dangerous driving.

But following the inquest yesterday, Luke’s mum, Debbie Knight, said information about his death was still incomplete.

She said: “I have come to accept there are things I will never know.

“How long he was lying in the road before someone called for help, or whether it would have made a difference if he had been in a better place for medical care.”

Mrs Knight said her son, of Celeborn Street, South Woodham Ferrers, had been a nuisance when he was younger.

He had left school at 15, smoked cannabis, been involved in petty crime and been given an Asbo.

However, after getting a job at a school in Edmonton, North London, Luke began to turn his life around and decided to realise his dreams of travel.

“He became the person he always should have been,” she said.

A post mortem examination, carried out in the UK, found Luke died of a head injury.

Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray recorded a verdict of accidental death.

He leaves brothers Jake, 15, and Peter, 24, and sisters, Alex, 18, and Kerry, 21.