An inquest has opened into the death of a Bradford holidaymaker who drowned in a swimming pool in Ibiza.

Dad-of-four Paul Doherty, who was 45, and lived in Elmfield Drive, Odsal, was believed to have been staying at Club Maritim in the resort’s San Antonio Bay area when the tragedy happened.

According to a report in the party island’s weekly newspaper, The Ibiza Sun, medics who rushed to the scene battled for 40 minutes to try and save him.

The report suggests Mr Doherty had suffered a heart attack.

The report read: “Although members of the various police forces and an ambulance equipped with a doctor from the health centre were quick to answer the emergency call, and practised artificial respiration for 40 minutes, they could not manage to save him.

“It is thought that he probably died from a heart attack.”

Bradford coroner Roger Whittaker heard at yesterday’s inquest opening that Mr Doherty died on August 9. It has now been adjourned to wait for more reports.

A Holiday Watchdog review last month mentioned there were no lifeguards on duty at the Club Maritim’s pool “which turned out to be bad,” the reviewer wrote.

A notice in yesterday’s Family Notices section of the Telegraph & Argus said friends of Mr Doherty are invited to his funeral at St Winefride’s RC Church in Wibsey on Thursday at 10.45am.

Instead of flowers his family has requested donations be made in his memory for his children.

He leaves a wife, Mandy, and children Anthony, Nicholas, Lauren and Megan among other family including three sisters, a brother and father Johnny and stepmum Pat.