The inquest into the death of a York boy with a serious heart defect has been adjourned.

Bradley Brough died at the age of 11 following surgery to improve his circulation as he was born with his heart in the wrong side of his body.

Bradley’s parents, Sharon and Kevin, attended the inquest at Wakefield coroners court yesterday and heard evidence from the surgeon who tried to improve their son’s life, Doctor Nihal Weerasena, and those who helped treat him after the operation.

The inquest heard Bradley, who was also born with a twisted bowel and no spleen, had an operation last October to improve blood flow around his body which meant he was attached to a heart and lung machine for several hours and given blood thinning drugs to allow the operation to go ahead.

After the operation doctors noticed he was still bleeding on his return to intensive care and took him back to theatre to search for the source of the bleed.

When his blood pressured levelled out Bradley was returned to the ward but deteriorated the next day and doctors carried out a third operation to reverse the initial procedure.

After returning to the ward doctors noticed Bradley’s eyes had become discoloured and non-responsive and a scan showed he had suffered a bleed in his brain leaving only a small section still active.

His life support was turned off at 10.30am on August 13 last year. He died shortly after.

Mary Burke, coroner, adjourned the inquest, originally meant to be a one-day hearing, to be concluded at a later date.