AN INQUEST will probe the death of a Royal Navy officer who died while on service in the Gulf, the Morning Star has learned.

Thirty-year-old Lieutenant Steven Clarke died on December 10 at a British naval base in Bahrain.

More details about the officer’s death will be heard at Milton Keynes coroner’s court on June 14 by senior coroner Thomas Osborne. The court will sit for one day only and there will not be a jury.