The nephew of Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory died in a car accident after he ‘inexplicably’ drove on the wrong side of the road, an inquest into his death has heard.
Hugo Yaxley, who is the son of Damian’s sister Amanda, was just 20 years old when he died last November in an accident in Wiltshire.
Hugo’s death came just five months before his aunt Helen tragically died of cancer at the age of just 52. Before her death, Helen said of Hugo that he was a ‘very rare young man’ and had a ‘wisdom far beyond his years’ and said she was ‘so sad I’ll never see his smile again’.
Damian described his nephew as a mental health campaigner who ‘touched more people in his short life than most do in their longer ones’.
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