Jailed former Gooch gang boss Lee Amos collapsed and died after suffering a heart attack in prison, an inquest concluded.

Amos, who had undiagnosed heart disease, was founding sweating and clutching his chest by a fellow inmate who held his hand after he collapsed in his cell at HMP Oakwood, a privately-operated category C prison in Staffordshire, on April 22 last year. He was given CPR in his cell but he died later in hospital, aged 48.

He was serving life with a minimum 35 years behind bars for a drive-by killing at a wake in 2007. Mourners dived for cover when Amos and four other Gooch gang members opened fire.

Tyrone Gilbert, 24, was killed. Amos had also been suspected over the murder of the man for whom the wake was being held – Ucal Chin – but the jury which convicted him of Mr G

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