A distraught family are demanding an apology from a local authority after their brother was buried in the wrong grave. They claim they were assured Clive Stephenson’s plot would be next to his mother’s, yet he has been lain to rest a distance away on the edge of the burial ground.
Sisters, Vivienne and Jean Honeyghan, say mourners were unaware of the change until the 50-year-old body was placed in the ground on the day of his funeral at Handsworth cemetery in Birmingham. Then, it was too late to protest, reports BirminghamLive.
To add to their anguish, father-of-seven Clive was placed in a plot so sodden, it was filling with water as the coffin was lowered. Birmingham City Council has met the family on-site in a bid to resolve the issue.
