Croydon Guardian reports of an inquest into the death of a Royal Marine will no longer appear through a Google search after a request for its removal was made to the multi-million pound search engine.

Dylan Kemp was found hanged at his Croydon home after returning from a tour of Afghanistan in 2009.

An inquest heard the 28-year-old left a note stating he felt he had slipped through the net, while a worker for the Ministry of Defence admitted only 10 per cent of marines returning from duty were being invited to mandatory meetings to assess their health and well-being.

On August 28 this year, the newspaper was informed by Google that the story, published February 20 2012, had been removed from their search engine following a request, as required due to a landmark case on data protection law heard in Europe earlier in the year.

The paper is not privy to who the request has been made by.

The story is still available on the Croydon Guardian website here.