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Funeral Home ‘Dumped Bodies In Corridor Next To Old Bike And Christmas Trees’

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A funeral home stored coffins containing bodies in a corridor next to an old bike and Christmas trees, it has been claimed.

The Sun reported that the coffins were stored on a shelf next to a rusty bicycle and discarded Christmas trees in a room with a mouldy ceiling at the Midcounties Co-operative Funeralcare home in Walsall.

A source told the newspaper that bodies were usually left for one or two days, but that in October a coffin remained there for two weeks.

“The way they treat the dead is absolutely scandalous,” the source said.

“After bodies have been put in their coffin they get dumped in a corridor behind the chapel and the state it’s in is appalling.”

Midcounties Co-operative said it will investigate the claims.

A spokesman told The Sun: “In our Walsall funeral home, one chapel of rest is used to respectfully hold coffins.

“Before being transported to a funeral, coffins are moved to an adjoining designated corridor.

“It is against company policy for any unrelated items to be kept within a chapel of rest or designated corridor alongside coffins and so we will immediately investigate any allegations of this policy being breached.”

Jane Hughes, whose father John Bagby’s body was kept at the home while awaiting his funeral, said she was “sickened to the stomach” by the claims.

She said: “We were assured Dad would be looked after, so to hear this has absolutely smacked us in the face.”

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