FOUR separate inquests were opened and adjourned on Teesside, this week.

The first was into the death of 32-year-old factory worker Annette McCubbin, who was found at her home in Oliver Street, South Bank, near Middlesbrough, on March 3.

Another inquest was opened into the death on March 2 of 27-year-old Stephen Burke, an unemployed general assistant who lived with his parents in Haythrop Drive, Acklam.

Helen Moloney gave evidence of formal identification at the opening of an inquest into the death of her nephew, Lee Antonio Jameson, 24, of Stephens Road, Middlesbrough, who died shortly after his arrival at Middlesbrough General Hospital, on March 4.

Businessman John Martin McTigue, 57, was pronounced dead by a doctor who called at his home in Stokesley Road, Middlesbrough, on March 2, said Teesside deputy coroner Gordon Hetherington, opening the fourth inquest.