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Burial plot occupied by stranger PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Sunday, 12 December 2004
Burial plot occupied by stranger

Mrs Wilson's brother, Robert, has now been cremated
A woman from Essex is desperately trying to trace the relatives of a stranger who was mistakenly buried in a grave with her mother.
The error means there is no room for other family members, including a man who died last week.

Barbara Wilson, of Maldon, was hoping to bury her brother Robert in the family plot at Luton Church Cemetery in Beds, only to find it occupied.

The blunder - and burial - apparently took place more than 30 years ago.

But the mixup but only came to light when Mrs Wilson tried to make funeral arrangements for her brother and discovered that a man named John Porter had already been interred at the gravesite.

She said: "I am really upset and quite often just burst into tears.

"I had the option of cremating my brother or putting him in a grave somewhere else or in the same cemetery - or the other option was to have him stored until the problem could be solved.

"We cannot afford to do that, so we have opted to cremate him, which was against our wishes."

The Reverend Canon Nick Bell, chairman of the cemetery's trustees, said: "We sympathise with Mrs Wilson and are taking all possible steps, legally, pastorally and practically to try to resolve this situation."



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/essex/4080425.stm
 
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