AN inquest has been opened into the death of a mechanic who fell 30 feet from his garage roof.

Wayne Pablo, 35, who lived with his retired parents in Preston Old Road, Cherry Tree, Blackburn, fell through the roof of his new workshop in Feniscliffe Drive on April 3 while watching his dad Raymond, 69, carry out repairs.

Wayne, a mechanic for eight years, had bought the workshop just two months earlier.

The fall, on to a concrete floor, left him with head injuries, three broken ribs, a punctured lung and a broken collar bone.

Surgery was carried out to drain a blood clot from his brain and fluid from his lung but his parents and brother Mark, 36, were told last week that he would not awaken from his coma.

He died on April 21 in Royal Preston Hospital.

The inquest was adjourned until June 12 for a review of how a Health and Safety Executive investigation is progressing.