By Holly McKenzie-Sutter THE CANADIAN PRESS A forensic pathologist told a coroner’s inquest on Monday that a man who died from hypertensive heart disease while in Thunder Bay police custody might have survived if he had been assessed and sent to a hospital, though it’s difficult to know for sure. Dr. Kona Williams testified in Thunder Bay, Ont., as part of an expert autopsy panel at the joint inquest probing the deaths of Roland McKay and Donald Mamakwa. The Indigenous men died at different times from medical conditions while in custody at Thunder Bay Police Service headquarters, after they were arrested on suspicion of public intoxication. Neither was assessed by a doctor or nurse before they died. Williams said the heart disease McKay, 50, died from in 2017 is difficult

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