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Corpse Mishandling

Am I wrong and bad to find it amusing that the family name in this tale is "Anus Itch"?






I won't even bother taking my coat off :(
 
Brazil footballer's ex-lover 'was fed to dogs'
Page last updated at 03:12 GMT, Friday, 9 July 2010 04:12 UK

The missing former lover of a top Brazilian football star was strangled and then fed to dogs, police say.

Eliza Samudio, 25, was a former girlfriend of Bruno Fernandes, goalkeeper for Flamengo, Brazil's most popular club.

He handed himself into police after a warrant was issued for his arrest over her disappearance nearly a month ago.

Mr Fernandes, 25, has denied any wrongdoing, and said he has a "clear conscience".

But police say a teenage cousin of Mr Fernandes has given evidence that the goalkeeper was involved in her kidnap and suspected murder.

Ms Samudio had said that the married footballer was the father of her baby.

Police say Ms Samudio was taken by force from a hotel in Rio de Janeiro on the day of her disappearance and was strangled in the city of Belo Horizonte.

They say her body was cut up and parts were fed to dogs, while the rest was buried under concrete.

Police are still searching for her remains, but say her death is "materially proven".

Police have also arrested Mr Fernandes's wife, Dayane Souza, and several of his friends.

They say interrogation of the other suspects has backed up the account given by Mr Fernandes's teenage cousin.

Flamengo have suspended Mr Fernandes's contract and say the club lawyer will no longer be acting in his defence.

He had been goalkeeper of the Rio de Janeiro club since 2006, and captained them to the Brazilian championship last year.

Mr Fernandes has expressed regret that the allegations could damage his chances of playing for Brazil in the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals. :!:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/latin_ ... 565346.stm
 
Japanese centenarian’s remains found in son’s backpack after 10 years
Japan’s search for its centenarians has led to the discovery of the remains of a Tokyo woman who was thought to be 104 stuffed into her son's backpack for nearly a decade.
Published: 9:09AM BST 20 Aug 2010

The discovery comes weeks after the discovery of the more than 30-year-old mummified corpse of a man who had been thought to be celebrating his 111th birthday.

Since then officials across Japan have been examining the country’s centenarian population, only to find that nearly 200 of them are missing.

In the latest find, made by police on Thursday in an apartment in Tokyo’s Ota ward, the dead woman’s 64-year-old son told officials that his mother had died nine years ago, but that he had not been able to afford a funeral for her.

“She died in about June 2001 in our house,” the man reportedly said.

“I laid out her body for a while, washed it in the bath, then broke up the bones and put them into a backpack.” :shock:

Police are investigating the man on suspicion of criminal damage to a human body and illegal pension receipt, according to Japanese media.

The son told police that “because I didn’t have money for a funeral, I didn’t report her death,” the Sankei Shimbun daily reported.

The ward had sent her 150,000 yen (1,800 dollars) in cash gifts to celebrate what was believed to be her longevity in the past three years, reports said.

Japan has a tradition of giving birthday gifts to centenarians, but often the presents are handed to family members.

A government report said in July that Japan’s average life expectancy set a world-best 86.44 years for women while men’s average life expectancy came fifth globally with 79.59 years.

The number of centenarians more than tripled to 40,399 — 87 per cent of whom are women – over the past decade, according to the latest figures released by the government last September.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... years.html
 
Liverpool airport pair not charged over dead man

Two women who were arrested after trying to take a dead relative on to a plane will not face charges.

Gitta Jarant and her daughter, Anke Anusic, were arrested at Liverpool John Lennon Airport when it emerged Curt Willi Jarant, 91, was dead.

The women - his widow and stepdaughter - protested their innocence and said they thought he was asleep.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said they had insufficient evidence with which to charge the pair.

Mr Jarant, known as Willi, was wearing sunglasses in a wheelchair when staff checked his pulse and found no signs of life.

He had been taken by taxi to the airport from their home in Oldham, Greater Manchester, by Mrs Jarant, 66, and 41-year-old Mrs Anusic.

The family, who are German nationals, had been waiting to board a flight to Berlin.

Although the pair insisted he was alive, a pathologist called out to examine the body concluded he had been dead for up to 36 hours.

The women were subsequently arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of death.

However, subsequent examinations suggested he had died up to 12 hours before his presentation at the check-in desk.

Martin Hill, reviewing lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said: "Having carefully reviewed a file of evidence presented to me by police, I have concluded that there is insufficient evidence to bring any charges in relation to the death of Kurt Willi Jarrant."

When interviewed by the BBC in April, Ms Anusic said: "He was alive. He was pale but he wasn't dead."

"A dead person you cannot carry to Germany, there are too many people checking and security."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11181268
 
rynner2 said:
The women - his widow and stepdaughter - protested their innocence and said they thought he was asleep.
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This is the line of defense I rather tongue-in-cheek suggested back in April!
 
Burial at sea fails when body surfaces

FORT LAUDERDALE —
A burial in his beloved sea was the wish of Daniel Scott Lasky, who died last week at his home in Hickory, N.C.

But his family's efforts to comply with that wish led to a fisherman's startling discovery and sent homicide investigators scrambling to solve the mystery of a body at sea.

Lasky, a 48-year-old grocery worker, died of Lou Gehrig's disease on Sept. 8. The next day his family packed his body in dry ice, loaded it into a van and drove to Fort Lauderdale, where Lasky once vacationed. After stopping overnight in Daytona Beach, the family and Lasky's remains arrived in Fort Lauderdale on Friday.

But the sea proved no resting place. Though weighted down, Lasky's body resurfaced Saturday. About 9:30 that morning, a fisherman reported a man's body floating about four miles offshore. Its wrappings had come undone. Sheriff's marine deputies raced to the scene, along with the Coast Guard. Homicide detectives waited onshore.

Investigators later found Lasky's intended resting place in his obituary in the Hickory Daily Record: "Burial will be at sea."

Coleman-Wright said Sharon Lasky had a proper death certificate and permit to transport her husband's body. She arranged the sea burial while in North Carolina.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/browar ... 7720.story
 
Wrap the body in chicken wire netting, include a lot more weight than you think you'd need, puncture the body cavities. Should stay down and the fishies have easy access....
 
You seem to know a lot about this sort of thing... :shock:
 
As they used to say in the Guides and Scouts, be prepared....
 
Yup, they used to do a badge in 'Corpse Disposal'. Think it's been incorporated into the General Evidential Awareness now.
 
Elderly woman's body missing
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/bre ... ing25.html
Fri, Nov 05, 2010

A man is feared to have left the State with the body of his mother, it was revealed today.

Authorities said they believed the man, in his 60s and from the south of England, had been living in Kenmare, Co Kerry, for the last two years.

The county coroner had warned yesterday he must bury or cremate his mother, who died in September.

Coroner Terence Casey, a solicitor, said he no longer knew the whereabouts of the body of the elderly English woman which had been placed in a rented house in Kenmare, in early October, apparently by her son.

According to sources, she was laid out in a bedroom of a house rented by her son. A coffin was also in the house.

The family had rented the house in the town centre in recent months. The woman had been confined to a wheelchair. Her son, in his early 60s, was “devoted to her”, according to one local man.

A Garda spokesman said officers were made aware after October 14th that the man had been living in the rented house in the town with his mother’s body.

“The man was found in his house with his mother,” the Garda spokesman said. “Both gardaí and the Coroner’s Office liaised with him and spoke with him. There was an undertaking given to bury his mother.”

The dead woman was in her 90s and had been living in Malta where she was taken ill and died from pneumonia on September 24th.

Mr Casey said her son flew her body back from Malta to London’s Gatwick airport, put the coffin in a car and drove to Ireland. Mr Casey said the body was not declared at Customs in Ireland.

The Coroner’s Office was contacted about the woman’s remains being kept in a rented house on the same day as the Garda were notified.

The coroner said the man had previously told his landlord he was leaving the house in Kenmare as his mother was ill in Malta.

“When the landlord went into the house approximately a week later, he discovered our man back in the house, who informed him that his mother died in Malta and that he was sorry but he was coming back to Ireland and wanted to live in the house again,” the coroner said.

Mr Casey said the man had added “that his mother was laid out in the bed upstairs if he wanted to go and pay his respects”.

Additional reporting PA
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He may be driving around the UK. Watch out for an estate car with a coffin in the back.

Undertaker helped son place body in coffin
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ire ... 91092.html
ANNE LUCEY

Sat, Nov 06, 2010

AN UNDERTAKER in Kenmare has said he helped place a 91-year-old dead woman into a coffin after her corpse was transported to this country, apparently by her son.

The woman, who was frail and had been in a wheelchair, had died of natural causes in Valetta, Malta, on September 24th while on holiday with her son.

Her body had been flown to Gatwick airport in a sealed coffin with proper documentation. However, on October 4th the corpse was transported into this country apparently by her son, named locally as Nathan Whigham, in his early 60s, and this was without notice to the authorities, Kerry-south coroner Terence Casey has said.

Sources say they believe the corpse was brought in via Rosslare in a rental car, but was not declared at customs. The mother and son had been living in Kenmare town centre since Easter.

When gardaí arrived at the house on October 18th, on the instructions of Mr Casey, Mr Whigham and his elderly mother’s remains had disappeared.

Yesterday Kenmare undertaker John Finnegan said Mr Whigham contacted him two weeks ago. Mr Finnegan said he called to the house where the corpse was laid out and he assisted Mr Whigham in putting the body into the coffin. It was then placed in an estate car.

Gardaí believe Mr Whigham left through the North.
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Grandmother's corpse kept in Wirral benefits fraud

Two women have admitted leaving the corpse of a dead grandmother unburied at their home for up to six months while one of them kept her benefits.
The body of Olive Maddock, 95, was left in a bedroom at the house in Wirral by daughter Olive Hazel Maddock, known as Hazel, and granddaughter Jasmine, 35.

Hazel Maddock admitted unlawful prevention of burial and dishonestly claiming her mother's benefits.
Jasmine Maddock admitted a charge of leaving a body unburied.
Both women pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday.

Mrs Maddock's remains were found at the home she then shared with her daughter and granddaughter on Saltburn Road in Wallasey, Wirral.
Merseyside Police, who were alerted by a concerned neighbour, found her body slumped behind the door of her bedroom.
Forensic examinations could not give an exact cause or date of death but she is thought to have died of natural causes between two and six months earlier.

Hazel Maddock, a television extra who has worked on Channel 4 programmes Brookside and Hollyoaks, obtained one payment of her dead mother's state pension of £176.92 and a single payment of pension credit of £34.44.

A judge warned Maddock and her daughter, an artist, that they faced a jail term when they are sentenced.
Both women, who no longer live together or at the house in Wallasey, were granted bail on condition of residence to addresses shown to the court.
Speaking to Jasmine Maddock, Judge Gerald Clifton said: "You must expect the possibility of a custodial sentence."
The pair will be sentenced on Friday 1 July.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-me ... e-13748864
 
When I read about dead people left unburied so that a relative can claim benefits, I can't believe it's just badness, there has to be some mental disconnection too. Burial and reverence for the dead goes back millennia upon millennia, it's almost hard wired into our psyche.
 
Dumping of baby's body in rubbish skip shocks Dutch

PETER CLUSKEY in The Hague

Wed, Aug 31, 2011

A 22-YEAR-OLD woman from the Netherlands’ ultra-religious bible belt was being cared for in hospital in The Hague last night after the body of her baby, believed to have been born at the weekend, was found in a rubbish skip.

Named only as Melissa, the young woman was being treated in the secure medical unit at Scheveningen prison – where high-profile UN detainees including Ratko Mladic are held – and is expected to be questioned by police today on suspicion of causing the baby’s death.

What has shocked the Netherlands is that the woman is a native of Veenendaal, a quiet town some 70km southeast of Amsterdam – an area where conservative Protestant, so-called “black stocking” churches have about 650,000 members.

Although details of the tragedy are still emerging, it is understood the infant’s body was found by a passerby in a rubbish skip outside the home of Melissa’s boyfriend in the village of Scherpenzeel, which has a population of around 6,000, also in the bible belt.

Her boyfriend, who has not been named, has already been questioned by police and been released without charge. It’s not yet clear whether he was aware of the pregnancy or birth.

Shocked local people say they believe Melissa was confused by her pregnancy, too embarrassed to tell her friends, and attempted – unsuccessfully, it appears – to keep it a secret. “Lots of people thought she was pregnant, but that is not the sort of thing you ask, especially in a village as small as this one,” one man who knows the couple was quoted as saying.

Holland’s bible belt has three main towns – Veenendaal, Ede and Kampen – where the tone of public life tends to be strongly religious. Even strictly regulated Sunday trading, for example, is frowned upon, and it’s not unknown for Sunday shoppers to have their cars stoned.

Many of those who attend the area’s 360 churches were formerly members of the mainstream Dutch Reformed Church. They left it over the years because they believed it had abandoned traditional core values, and went on to form more conservative congregations of their own.

The bible belt forms the support base for Holland’s two Christian democratic parties, the Christian Union and the orthodox Protestant SGP, whose members tend to oppose what they regard as a liberal agenda which includes gay rights, abortion, euthanasia, state-run vaccination programmes and even, in many cases, votes for women.
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/wor ... 38015.html
 
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This one is, well, brrrrrrrrrrr :shock:

Russia holds suspect over theft of women's skeletons

Police investigating Russian grave robberies are holding a man after the remains of at least 20 women were found in his flat, Russian media report.

Mummified remains of 27 women were found in the flat in Nizhny Novgorod, a police source told government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

The suspect, 45, is a local historian, Russian news agencies say.

He is believed to have dug up the remains of young women at various cemeteries and put dresses on them.

An official statement on the case is not expected until after Friday, a public holiday in Russia.

The remains are believed to have been stolen from local graves in Nizhny Novgorod, a city on the Volga.

The suspect may be charged with desecrating human remains, according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

He apparently specialised in exploring cemeteries and was planning to publish a guide book, it adds.

Differing figures for the number of sets of remains found in the flat were given by Russian media, from "more than 20" to 27, as reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15590851
 
This is pretty grim in context, i'm trying to recall if this was the guy that was caught on cctv dying on the cell floor while the police officers were roflmao look how he's faking and thinking his 'act' was hilarious:

Christopher Alder death: Body mix-up claim probed

Authorities in Hull are probing claims that the body of a man who died in police custody has turned up - more than 10 years after he was thought to have been buried.

Police were accused of "unwitting racism" over the death of black ex-paratrooper Christopher Alder, 37.

His sister has told the BBC that the body of a woman was buried by mistake.

Hull City Council would not confirm the body was Mr Alder's, but said it was "appalled and distraught" by the error.

The council said the body of a man had been found in the city mortuary where it was thought a woman's body was laying.

Mr Alder's family said they had been told they "buried the wrong body" at his funeral.

Mr Alder died while lying face down in a pool of blood in a police cell area in 1998.
'Thorough investigation'

A council statement said: "On Friday 4 November 2011, Hull City Council was made aware of a situation relating to the body of a man, who was in his late 30s, located in the city mortuary.

"The body lay in the place where Grace Kamara had been recorded as rested. At the moment, we cannot explain this.

"Whilst Grace Kamara had died of natural causes in 1999, her council-funded burial was, for family-related reasons, only able to take place on Friday. It was immediately postponed.

"Hull City Council is both appalled and distraught at what it has learnt and, in conjunction with Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, is undertaking a full and thorough investigation.

"At the present time our main priority is to inform and support the families of those affected. We expect further information to be available later."
Hospital arrest

In 2006, a report by the Healthcare Commission watchdog said lessons must be learned from the "tragic death" of Mr Alder.

The commission found a failure to share information between hospital staff and police, and called for better co-operation.

It was published alongside an Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report that said four police officers were guilty of the "most serious neglect of duty" over the death. The IPCC said the officers had been guilty of "unwitting racism".

Mr Alder choked to death in a police station after he was arrested at Hull Royal Infirmary for an alleged breach of the peace.

He had been injured in a scuffle outside a hotel in Hull city centre before being taken to the hospital for treatment.

In 2002, five Humberside Police officers went on trial accused of manslaughter and misconduct in public office. They were cleared of all charges at Teesside Crown Court.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-15611194
 
I was talking with my elderly neighbour about that story earlier, he said "and he's been inoculated for all those years?"

When i suggested that might not be the word he was looking for, he decided the chap had been percolated all those years instead.
 
Fear not, he will soon be in the grounds.
 
Another story on the Christopher Alder case:

Officials are investigating claims that a man who died while in police custody has been discovered in a morgue - more than a decade after he was supposedly buried.

The mix-up was discovered last Friday, when Hull City Council tried to bury the body of Grace Kamara, a woman who died in 1999 but whose council funded burial was delayed for "family-related reasons".

In a statement issued by the council, it said the body of a man in his late thirties was located in the city mortuary where Ms Kamara's body was supposed to be resting.

The council said at the moment it "cannot explain this".

A subsidiary statement was then issued confirming that the man's body is that of 37-year-old ex-paratrooper Christopher Alder.

Mr Alder's family has been informed that they buried the wrong body over a decade ago.

He died in police custody in 1998, after being arrested following a disturbance in the city.

Mr Alder was lying handcuffed and face down in a pool of blood in a police cell when he choked to death.

Five Humberside police officers went on trial accused of manslaughter and misconduct in 2002.
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http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/bo ... gue_mix_up

Poor man!!

Absolutely disgraceful!! I hope everyone involved in the mix-up are thoroughly ashamed of themselves for causing so much grief to his family; they'd been through so much already.
 
Dover Air Base dumped 274 US troop remains at landfill
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16081240

The disposals took place when the mortuary was shielded from public scrutiny

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Air base 'lost US troop remains'

Incinerated partial remains of at least 274 troops were reportedly dumped at landfill between 2004-08 by the largest military mortuary in the US.

The Washington Post report was based on data from Dover Air Force Base, the main entry port for US war dead.

The newspaper first broke the story last month, but it was not known how many remains were dumped at landfill.

Families, who had agreed for the remains to be disposed of respectfully, were unaware of the practice.

Pentagon officials did not authorise the procedure, which was reported by whistleblowers.

Air Force officials, who have denied a cover-up, said last month they could not estimate the precise number of casualties' remains sent to the Virginia landfill.

'Disgusting'

They said a precise count would require trawling the records of 6,300 troops whose remains had passed through Dover since 2001.

But the Washington Post reported on Thursday that Air Force data between 2004-08 showed 976 fragments from 274 military personnel had been taken to the dump after being cremated.

Another 1,762 remains - which did not undergo DNA testing because they were too badly damaged - were disposed of in the same manner, according to the newspaper.

Gari-Lynn Smith, the widow of an Army bomb-disposal expert killed in Iraq, began asking the military in 2007 what happened to some of his remains that were identified after his funeral the previous year.

After four years of letters and phone calls she received a letter from the mortuary in April informing her that her husband's partial remains had been disposed of in the King George County landfill, reports the Post.

"I hope this information brings some comfort to you during your time of loss," read the letter.

Ms Smith told the Post that what the mortuary had done was "disgusting".

Since the landfill dumping ended three years ago, such cremated partial remains are now buried at sea.

After the Post reported the practice in early November, federal investigators released a report lambasting "gross mismanagement" at the air base mortuary.

It emerged that a dead soldier's ankle had been lost and a damaged arm bone was sawed off a dead Marine before burial so he could fit in his uniform and coffin.

The commander at the morgue, a colonel and two civilian officials were disciplined.

The three whistleblowers, James Parsons, Mary Ellen Spera and William Zwicharowski, told the Associated Press they had faced retaliation for reporting the incidents.

Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has ordered a special review of the base's operations.

The procedures took place at a time when the mortuary was shielded from public scrutiny because media coverage of fallen troops' return to the air base was banned between 1991-2009.
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Sad tale:

Man took his dead mother home on bus
Son wanted to get his mother home to Chorley after she died suddenly during day trip to Lancaster
Helen Carter
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 19 January 2012 12.19 GMT

A man took his mother's dead body on a 30-mile bus journey after she died during a day trip they had enjoyed together.
The 52-year-old man, who is thought to have learning difficulties, wanted to get his 88-year-old mother home when she died suddenly on a trip to Lancaster on Monday.

The woman, who has not been identified, is believed to have died on the bus on the journey back from Lancaster to Preston. Police said the woman's death was not being treated as suspicious.
A spokesman for Lancashire police said the woman's son did not know what to do. "He wanted to just get his mother home. It is just very tragic."

After arriving at Preston bus station, the man pushed his mother in her wheelchair off the bus and caught a second bus to Chorley. He got off the Stagecoach 125 service at Chorley at around 8.30pm on Monday.

Station staff and fellow passengers became suspicious and police were called as the man left the bus station with his mother in the wheelchair. CCTV footage was examined and the man was stopped by officers on Friday Street in the town.
Ambulance staff declared the woman dead at the scene.

The police spokesman said the death was deemed to be non-suspicious. "We spoke to a number of people at the time. We were there for several hours. This man has lost his mother and was struggling to know how to deal with it."

A fellow passenger on the bus to Chorley said he saw a security guard follow the man at Chorley interchange bus station.
He told the Lancashire Evening Post: "I did not realise until I got off the bus and the security guard was asking: 'Does she need an ambulance? Is she OK?'

"He just ran off along the bus station and the security guard chased after him. The bus driver was with him. I was shocked when I found out the lady was dead. I had not noticed but it was the security guard who said: 'I think she has passed away.'"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/1 ... r-home-bus
 
This is rather sad too, could have been part of a house clearance I guess, it's difficult to tell the age of the 'urn' from that picture, but perhaps there are no surviving relatives left:

Ashes found in charity shop

Ashes thought to be a child's have been found in a charity shop after a member of staff opened what turned out to be an urn.

The shock find was made as a shopworker at Mind charity store in Letchworth, Hertfordshire inspected a teddy bear sculpture that later turned out to contain ashes.

“It was being held in the back room in our sorting area before it was brought forward,” assistant manager Gay Hall told Yahoo! News. “It was going to go out for display and one of our volunteers opened to see what it was.

“You would have thought it was a doorstop or something because it is just a teddy bear holding a book,” she added.

The ashes are still being held in store while workers desperately try to find the owner of the item, which could have been handed in a number of months ago.
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/child%E2%80%99 ... -shop.html
 
Wrong coffin used at Loughborough funeral
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-le ... e-17230916

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The wrong coffin was used during a service at a Leicestershire crematorium despite a warning from a staff member that the name on the lid was different.

The service was at Loughborough Crematorium on 21 February, crematorium owner Dignity Funerals said.

Loughborough and District Funeral Service, which was responsible for making sure the correct coffin was delivered, held the service.

The funeral director and crematorium have both apologised to the family.

Coffin 'nameplate'
A spokesman for Dignity Funerals said no cremation took place, and confirmed an investigation is under way to find out why the service went ahead.

He said: "All coffins have a nameplate with the name of the deceased on the coffin lid to help the funeral director identify the deceased.

"A member of our staff noticed that this was not the correct coffin for the service and informed the funeral director."

A spokesman for Loughborough and District Funeral Service, which was responsible for taking the coffin to the crematorium, said: "Our colleagues' first concern is with the families of the bereaved.

"We will do all we can to bring this matter to a satisfactory conclusion for everyone affected."

The funeral service spokesman said no more details were available "due to client confidentiality".
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That's bad, but I've actually seen even worse funeral-bungling.
 
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