The doctor who conducted the autopsy on a London woman who collapsed in police custody and later died in hospital told a jury Tuesday that a faster medical response could have increased her chances of survival.

This is the fourth day of a mandatory coroner's inquest into the death of Amanda Bolt who spent the night in the London police’s detention centre on Nov. 2, 2019 after being arrested twice in one day. The then 28-year old went into medical distress the next morning and died 10 days later in hospital.

Tuesday marked the first time the five-person jury heard from medical professionals, including Dr. Edward Tweedie, the forensic pathologist who conducted Bolt’s autopsy the day after she died.

Tweedie told the jury Bolt died because of brain damage, which she experienced after going

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