AN INQUEST is expected to take four days to inquire into how a prisoner at Les Nicolles died of a heart attack despite complaining of chest pains for several days.

HM Comptroller Richard McMahon yesterday read statements from people who had been involved in the case.

Copies of interviews conducted by an independent UK prison ombudsman were also read.

Second-time drink-driver Alan Schofield, 64, was jailed for six weeks in June and died in the early hours of Saturday 11 July.

Mr Schofield worked as an architectural technician for States Property Services. He had been married to Patricia since 1970 and they had a son, Sam.

Mrs Schofield spoke to her husband every day while he was in prison and had found him optimistic, particularly about the fact that he had not drunk alcohol for a month.

On 27 June, he told her that a prison doctor had found an abnormality on one side of his heart.

Then, at 3.45am on 11 July, she was woken by two police officers who told her that her husband had died.

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