Inmate Andrew Neal died last year just hours after speaking to prison officers to raise concerns about his mental health, an inquest heard.

The father-of-three was found unconscious by a fellow prisoner in his cell at HMP Wayland, near Thetford.

He died at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital just over a week later from a brain injury, having suffered a hypoxic cardiac arrest.

Norfolk Coroner's Court in Norwich 18822228(Image: Denise Bradley)

Norfolk Coroner's Court was told during a two-week inquest that the 53-year-old had been transferred to the prison just weeks earlier.

On the morning of........

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