An inquest into the death of a Hounslow student who died after being punched by a professional boxer began this Monday
Jagdip Randhawa died on October 17, 2011, five days after being felled by a blow from Clifton Ty Mitchell in Leeds during a night out.
Mitchell, then 21, of Derby, was jailed in 2012 for the manslaughter of the 19-year-old Leeds University, who was a former head boy at Cranford Community College .
An inquest at Wakefield Coroner's Court is due to consider whether possible failings by Derbyshire Police Service and Leeds NHS Hospital Trust may have contributed to the teenager's death.
The human rights group Liberty, which is representing Mr Randhawa's family said the inquest will take place before a jury and is scheduled to last for three weeks.
Huge crowds turned out to pay their respects at a memorial football tournament held at Mr Randhawa's former school in July.
Speaking at the inquest Mr Randhawa’s sister Majinder made an emotional appeal for answers surrounding his death and told the jury that medical experts said her brother could have survived his injuries if it was not for what had happened at Leeds General Infirmary.
Frequently breaking down as she gave evidence, Ms Randhawa said her brother had been placed on the faulty ventilator for 46 minutes, during which time alarms to alert staff to a problem sounded constantly. She said one doctor told the criminal trial it was the "worst level of care he had seen in his 27-year career".
Raj Desai, representing the family at the inquest, asked Ms Randhawa: "The expert evidence was that if it hadn't been for the ventilator, your brother could have survived?"
She replied: "He said what was a survivable injury was not survivable because of what happened at hospital."
The inquest also heard that Mitchell, whose bail conditions required him to live and sleep at his parents' address in Derby, had breached his bail on a number of occasions and was arrested in Leeds in the early hours of the morning after the fatal attack. Ms Randhawa said her brother, a keen American footballer, had just begun his second year of studying English at university in Leeds and wanted to be a writer. She said: "He was funny, really quick, confident, just a good guy. My brother was 19. We didn't get to see his 21st birthday. We didn't get to see him graduate. All the things parents would want for their children, my parents haven't got that any more. Our lives stopped when Jag died."
The inquest is expected to last for three weeks.
