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Two Held Over Grave Robbery

Written by DeadGirl
Thursday, 17 March 2005
A man and a woman were arrested today after the remains of a pensioner whose family owns a guinea pig farm were stolen from a Staffordshire graveyard. A 32-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman were detained after 25 police officers raided a house in Gloucester. Most of the remains of Gladys Hammond, who died in 1997, aged 82, were taken from her grave in the grounds of St Peter's Church in Yoxall, Staffordshire, during the night of October 5 and 6 last year. Mrs Hammond's son-in-law, Chris Hall, co-owns a farm that breeds guinea pigs for research in nearby Newchurch which has been targeted by animal rights activists. Today, search teams were understood to be sweeping the house while the pair, who were arrested at 6am, were being transported to Staffordshire for questioning. This morning's arrests follow a fresh appeal for information on BBC1's Crimewatch UK programme last night. Staffordshire Police said this had prompted a small number of calls to the studio but stressed the arrests were a "separate development". The Hall family have been subjected to a long-running campaign by animal rights activists, suffering hate mail, malicious phone calls, hoax bombs, accusations of paedophile and arson attacks. In October, the Conservative MP for Lichfield, Michael Fabricant, blamed the graveyard attack on local animal rights extremists. But Sarah Dixon, spokeswoman for the Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs campaign, said the group had no part in the desecration. Two men and a woman arrested last year in connection with the offence remain on police bail. The Guardian UK News

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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