Prisoners in Westgate get the same drugs sold on Bermuda’s streets, a court inquest heard — but former inmates were quiet on methods used to smuggle contraband into the facility.One ex-inmate said he couldn’t let the “tricks” be revealed.Witnesses were questioned as part of a continuing inquest into the death of inmate Kino Outerbridge, 37, who collapsed in Westgate and later died on October 6, 2009. One witness told the court he believed heroin was the cause of death.Asked by Coroner’s officer Sergeant Lyndon Raynor if he had known of prison inmates taking drugs, former inmate Toronto Darrell replied: “Yes, absolutely.”But he declined to elaborate when asked if he could tell the court how contraband entered the prison.Mr Outerbridge, he said, had formerly been an addict, and thin at the time of his addiction, but had “put on a lot of weight and looked good” by the time of their acquaintance in Westgate, and was not using drugs.Mr Outerbridge fell to the floor in the E block cell of inmate Garrett Burrows shortly after breakfast that morning, and Mr Darrell joined attempts by prison staff to resuscitate him.“I would have to say that he died in Westgate. He lost his pulse, breathing, everything,” Mr Darrell told Crown counsel Martin Johnson.“I feel personally that Kino could have been saved if the medical officer would have used her expertise,” Mr Darrell told the court, adding that the medical officer had seemed “afraid to give him mouth-to-mouth”.Mr Johnson read a nurse’s statement, describing the initial scene in Mr Burrows’ cell, with an inmate collapsed and half under the bed and Mr Garrett shouting: “Come on, man, get up!”Mr Outerbridge, unresponsive, was not breathing, and a spoon had been placed in his mouth.Former prisoner Tetson Wall-Perkins told the jury he was on his way after breakfast to get a shave from an barber inmate.“As I passed the cell I heard [Mr Burrows] shouting, what’s wrong with Kino? Kino was rolling a cigarette, and I saw him falling off the bed.”Sgt Raynor asked him: “Are you aware of inmates using illegal drugs inside?”“I’ve heard of it,” the witness replied, adding: “I haven’t seen it with my own eyes.”Asked what types of drugs, he said: “All types. Weed. Coke. Drugs.”However, when asked if he was aware of how drugs came in, Mr Wall-Perkins said he did not.Next on the stand was current inmate Dean Sinclair Burgess, a friend of Mr Outerbridge’s, also housed on the upper level of the E block.According to his account, the victim had visited Mr Burgess’s cell that morning. After borrowing matches and cigarette papers, he left.Mr Burgess described his appearance as “in good health” but also said Mr Outerbridge was sweating.Shortly thereafter, while playing cards, Mr Burgess heard the call for lockdown.“This guy Devon Foggo came running and said Kino was having a seizure,” he said.A crowd had gathered, but Mr Burgess said Mr Outerbridge appeared not to be breathing.“I heard he had taken a hit,” he said, “and I took that to mean that he had taken heroin.”The jury heard also from the former occupant of cell 38 where Mr Outerbridge collapsed.In his statement, Mr Burrows said he and the victim had been friends since childhood, ending up in adjacent cells at Westgate.After exchanging books with Mr Foggo that morning, Mr Burrows and Mr Foggo returned to cell 38, and Mr Outerbridge came in after them for some juice.“He was trying to roll a cigarette and started flinching,” Mr Burrows said. “The tobacco fell in his lap. I asked him, ‘What are you doing?’ and he was shaking and sliding off the bed.”Shaking, Mr Outerbridge rolled partially under the bed, the witness said.“His tongue was out and his teeth were clenched on his tongue. I tried to get my fingers in his mouth, but couldn’t. By that time there were several people in my cell, shouting to ‘call the man (prison authorities), call 911’.”According to Mr Burgess’s statement, he was not aware of Mr Outerbridge using heroin.Asked by Sgt Raynor if Mr Outerbridge had earlier been a heroin user, Mr Burrows said: “Both of us were.”He said the two friends had spent time “talking on the phone and drinking brew” in Westgate.“I take it this phone was not provided by Westgate,” Sgt Raynor said, to which the witness replied: “No.”The home-brew was alcoholic “rotten juice”, he said, made from items found in the prison, adding: “The longer it sits, the stronger it gets.”On the morning of Mr Outerbridge’s death, the witness said: “Kino came in. He started sliding off the bed into the floor. Kino was smiling, and I told Devon, call the man, call the MO (medical officer).“About two minutes went by. I told the officers to press the duress button. If there was a fight, they would have pressed the button and a hundred officers would have been there.”He claimed it took “about 20 minutes before the MO comes walking down there”.Mr Burrows added: “I said Kino’s dead, the guy’s dead.”However, the witness told Sgt Raynor that Mr Outerbridge had not used heroin in Westgate.Asked what type of drugs were used in Westgate, he said: “The same drugs out on the street. But that morning, right there, he did not have no taste.”He added to Magistrate Juan Wolffe: “Kino never had a taste, and I never had a taste.”Sgt Raynor then asked: “You spoke about contraband, phones and drink. Would it be safe to say that drugs commonly found in the street came in?”Mr Burrows agreed, but when asked if he knew how such items were brought into the prison, he replied: “I can’t let those tricks get out.”