Inquest records open verdict on death of British man in Dubai custody after requests for CCTV footage were ignored Lee Bradley Brown on holiday in the Arab state when he was arrested and thrown into a filthy cell Sources have said he was "badly beaten" by a group of police officers, leaving him unconscious Dubai Police denied he was beaten to death, saying he suffered minor injuries while resisting arrest. Inquest barrister questioned validity of evidence provided by Dubai, noting requests for CCTV footage had been ignored. Tragedy: An inquest recorded an open verdict into the death of Lee Bradley Brown, pictured, in Dubai custody after a barrister's requests for CCTV footage of the prison he was held in were ignored A British inquest has recorded an open verdict in the case of a London man who died in a Dubai prison two years ago, after requests for existing CCTV footage from the prison were ignored. Lee Bradley Brown, 39, was on holiday at a £1,000-a-night hotel in the Arab state when he was arrested and thrown into a filthy cell. Sources have said he was "badly beaten" by a group of police officers, leaving him unconscious on the floor. Dubai Police, however, have denied he was beaten to death, saying he suffered minor injuries while resisting arrest. The dead man's brother, Steven Brown, on Thursday called on Dubai to release CCTV footage of the occasion that he saw as key to his brother's death. 'I would have thought they'd give us the CCTV just because of the relationship we (Britain) have with the UAE,' he said outside of the inquest at Walthamstow Coroner Court in East London. 'You'd think someone would be wanting to solve it, to put something in place so it doesn't happen again.' A post-mortem examination held in Dubai the week after Mr Brown's death concluded he had died from choking on his own vomit, but a British post-mortem just over a week later found no evidence of sick in his airways. The British pathologist, however, also discounted violent trauma as a possible cause of death, describing the bruising as 'light'. 'The poor bloke stood no chance at all': Lee Bradley Brown was on holiday in the Arab state when he was arrested A barrister at Thursday's inquest cited emerging evidence that he said did not 'chime' with the Dubai account, and the medical reports provided by Dubai pathologists. Barrister John Lofthouse also questioned the validity of the evidence provided by Dubai, noting that the requests for the CCTV footage had been ignored. The dead man's mother, Doris Shafi, on Thursday called the verdict 'disappointing,' but said it was 'what we were told to expect'. Brutal: Mr Brown was held for six days in the notoriously violent Bur Dubai police station Mr Brown, was from Dagenham in East London, where he ran a maintenance business. He flew to Dubai on his own for a last-minute holiday and was thought to have been staying in the Burj Al Arab - a seven-star hotel where rooms cost at least £1,000 a night. His sister has said she learned about the attack when she received a phone call from an inmate around a week later. The man claimed her brother had been beaten. Mr Brown was arrested on April 6 over allegations of assault, intimidating behaviour and using abusive language. Paradise? Human rights officials say Dubai prisons are among the worst in the world The prisoner told the sister he had found her phone number on a photocopy of her brother's passport which had been left behind in the cell. She contacted the British Embassy in Dubai, and an official was sent to visit Mr Brown at the police station. But the official was turned away by an officer who claimed Mr Brown did not want to see him and had "declined consular assistance." His sister received another phone call from the inmate saying he had seen her brother's body being taken out in a body-bag. A source told the Daily Mail: "He suffered a really bad beating which must have caused some terrible internal injuries. The poor bloke stood no chance at all. At one stage he was thrown against the concrete wall of a cell and landed badly. Then the guards tried to hush it up and pretend nothing had happened. Radha Stirling, founder of UK-based charity Detained in Dubai, said: "Police stations in Dubai are notoriously brutal and the one that this poor man was in is by far the worst. I have never come across any allegations as serious as this. Cells are usually covered in human faeces and can contain up to 20 prisoners in each one. Most will be forced to sleep on the floor. They are often denied the basic rights you would expect in a police station. You have to remember that these people have not even been found guilty in a court of law.