A grandmother’s coffin was spattered with blood and covered in thick black mould at the Hull funeral home being investigated by police, her grandson has alleged.
The family of Jessie Stockdale, who was 89 when she died in November, arranged her funeral with Legacy Independent Funeral Directors, which was raided by police last month over concerns for the care of the deceased.
Humberside police recovered 35 bodies and contacted several families to tell them that the ashes they had been given might not be those of their loved ones. Police told Stockdale’s grandson and carer for seven years, Tristan Essex, 24, from Hull, that his grandmother’s body might still be in the funeral home and he could have the wrong ashes. He told BBC
