Vadims Ivanovs died on December 29 last year at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (N&N).

He is believed to be the man who was pulled from the Wensum in the centre of Norwich by off-duty police officer Karl Warren nine days earlier.

A short hearing at Norfolk Coroner's Court heard Mr Ivanovs' provisional cause of death was hypoxic brain injury due to cardiac arrest, as a result of drowning.

It is understood he is the man dragged from the water near St James' Quay, in Norwich, at around 12.30pm on December 20.

Emergency services at the River Wensum (Image: Newsquest)

PC Warren had jumped into the water and, along with fellow officers who arrived on the scene, helped get him on to the bank and begin........

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