An inquest has opened into the death of an Oxford journalist this month.

Arthur Christy, 71, died at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headley Way, Oxford on September 18 this year.

He was a journalist from Cardiff who lived in Eden Drive, Headington at the time of his death.

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An inquest was opened into his death at Oxford Coroner’s Court on Thursday (October 3). It was heard that he was taken to hospital after being found unresponsive at home.

His cause of death, as provided by a treating clinician, has been given as ‘massive intracranial haemorrhage’, ‘hypertension’, and ‘atrial fibrillation’.

Coroner Nicholas Graham has set a date for a full inquest into his death to take place on January 16 at 3.15pm.