Westgate inmate Kino Outerbridge did not appear to be in any altered state on the morning of his sudden death, a former inmate told a jury.However, a police forensics officer told the coroner’s inquest that a torn white sheet had been seized from the cell where Mr Outerbridge was found collapsed.Pc Lo’Real Gibbons said she was instructed to remove the sheet, on the morning of October 6, 2009, “for intelligence — to show how the inmates have items brought up to their room via the window”.The sheet had one end tied to the metal bars of the window, she said, and a bar of soap attached to its other end.As the victim’s mother looked on from the public gallery, Pc Gibbons told Magistrate Juan Wolffe such smuggled items could include contraband.And Mr Outerbridge’s friend, Toronto Darrell, struggled with tears as he described speaking with the deceased just before he died.Mr Outerbridge, 37, has used cocaine for “a couple of years”, Mr Darrell said — but had been clean by the time Mr Darrell got acquainted with him in jail.“I spoke with him at 7.30pm before lockdown,” Mr Darrell said of the night before Mr Outerbridge’s death. “He was talking about his girlfriend. I don’t know her name. He was in a good mood.”Mr Outerbridge was “telling me how much he was in love with his girlfriend and children, and how when he gets out he wants to do this and that for them”, the witness said, adding: “He was telling me how it feels good, being off drugs.”After greeting Mr Outerbridge as they left their upper level cells the next morning, Mr Darrell reported heading downstairs for breakfast when chaos erupted upstairs.“I heard the inmates upstairs yelling, ‘Call an ambulance, Kino’s on the ground’,” he said.The witness described running with prison officers to the medical office, and said they were slowed by having to negotiate three different doors.Mr Outerbridge lay in another inmate’s cell. Despite attempts to revive him with CPR and oxygen, Mr Darrell recalled, he was informed later that day that he had died.“I don’t know what caused Kino to die,” he added.They had known one another for about eight years, the witness told Coroner’s officer Sergeant Lyndon Raynor.Describing himself as a recovered addict, Mr Darrell said he could see that Mr Outerbridge was not using drugs.“If a person has been on drugs, you can easily tell by how they carry themselves,” he told the jury.Sgt Raynor asked: “In your experience, being incarcerated at Westgate, are you aware that other inmates have been in possession of drugs?”“Absolutely,” Mr Darrell replied.The inquest continues today.