Leeds Coroner's Court heard that Mame Mory Gueye was doing between 92 and 118 kilometres an hour (57 to 73 mph) when he hit Stephen Brown and Hayli Jackson.

The legal limit in the area at the time was 60kph, or 37mph.

Both Mr Brown, of Shell Lane, Calverley, and Ms Jackson, a Londoner who Mr Brown had met while on his break in Marbella, were killed instantly.

The inquest into Mr Brown's death heard that Mr Gueye, a Senegalese national living in Spain, did not have a licence to drive in his adopted country.

He escaped the accident uninjured.

Simon Chu, a friend of Mr Brown's who was on holiday with him, told the court that a group of friends had shared a meal together on the evening of August 16 last year.

After the meal, Mr Brown, an entrepreneur and company director, went to meet his cousins.

The group met up again in a nightclub at about 2am, Mr Chu said.

They left the club for home between 4am and 4.30am, from where Mr Brown, 29, and Ms Jackson, 21, went to buy some food. They were hit by the car at about 6am.

Mr Chu said: "I found out something had happened when Hayli's friend called my phone to say there had been an accident. We went to the hospital but we didn't know they had been killed."

Assistant Leeds Coroner Kevin McLoughlin told the hearing some details were missing from the report by the Spanish authorities.

A verdict of accidental death was recorded.