Man who died violently in Cork City suffered cardiac arrest, inquest told 

Coroner Philip Comyn adjourned the inquest without fixing a date, pending the results of the criminal prosecution

Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margot Bolster told inquest the deceased died of hypoxic ischemic brain injury (a lack of oxygen to the brain) due to an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. File picture: Domnick Walsh

A man who died violently in Cork city last June suffered a brain injury caused by cardiac arrest and a sharp force injury to his face and neck.

Cork Coroner’s Court heard this morning that Jason Butler, 32, was seen by Garda Paul Delaney on June 14 on Daunt Square.