A BLACK man who died after police restraint had a happy childhood and did well at school, an inquest jury has heard.

Edir Frederico Da Costa, known as Edson, was born in Portugal and moved to Britain aged five.

He left school with seven GCSEs and dreamt of being a football manager but later fell in with the wrong crowd and ended up in trouble with the police.

His father tried to steer him back to college and he obtained more qualifications and had a child.

However, Mr Da Costa died in June 2017 after the Metropolitan police stopped him in Newham, east London.

The 25-year-old was travelling in a Mercedes hire car when plain-clothed officers became suspicious and pulled him over.

What happened next has been the subject of a month-long inquest at Walthamstow coroner’s court.

Summing up today, senior coroner Nadia Persaud reminded the jury of witness evidence.

She said the deceased’s friend and fellow passenger, Claude Greenaway, claimed that the officers were “aggressive” and made so much noise that local residents came out of their houses to observe.

But police testified that Mr Da Costa had tried to run away and resisted arrest.

As they struggled to handcuff him, an officer fired CS spray in his face at close range.

At some point around 20 to 30 wraps of class A drugs fell from his mouth and he appeared unwell.

Officers put him in the recovery position and tried to resuscitate him, but a plastic bag was found lodged in his throat containing more drugs.

He was rushed to intensive care and later died in Newham University Hospital from cardio respiratory arrest, foreign body upper airway obstruction and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

The coroner has directed the jury to provide a narrative verdict or make a conclusion of misadventure — a deliberate act which unexpectedly takes a turn that leads to death.

In light of expert medical evidence, she warned them it would “not be safe for you to record any judgmental findings against any interested persons.”

The jury’s verdict is expected later this week.