I’m terrified I kissed empty coffin when I laid dad to rest after 34 corpses were REMOVED from ‘fraudulent’ funeral home
A HEARTBROKEN daughter fears she “was kissing an empty coffin” after 35 corpses were removed from an undertaker’s mortuary freezer.
Relatives were left reeling after discovering a funeral parlour they'd used to cremate their loved ones was raided by police.
Hundreds of grieving relatives fear they may have been given the wrong ashes after police started searching three premises in East Yorkshire
Many fear the allegations against Legacy Funeral Directors of Hessle Road, Hull, could hit families going back 13 years.
Two people arrested in connection with the investigation into the funeral directors, have been bailed, Humberside Police said.
A 46-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman were held on suspicion of prevention of a lawful and decent burial, fraud by false representation and fraud by abuse of position.
A Coroner and the family should be informed if a body is to be kept frozen.
A friend of the family, from Beverley, East Yorkshire, said they were horrified to be told by police on Saturday that the body of their loved one, who died in July, last year, was still in a freezer at the Legacy Funeral Directors.
They added: "After the cremation they brought his ashes back.
“The daughter slept with them beside her bed and the family also took them to the pub for a memorial.
“They then paid quite a bit of money to have the ashes turned into crystal jewellery for his widow, daughter and grand-daughter to wear to remember him.
“But now they have found out that he wasn’t cremated and he has been in the freezer all this time.
“The widow is distraught. The family thought they had his remains, and are now asking ‘if it’s not him, then who is it?’
“They are now grieving again, they have lost that closure that a funeral give you.
“His widow has now been told by the police that she will have to go and identify the body of her dead husband - imagine that!”