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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent

Families’ horror at funeral director who kept babies’ bodies at home

A sign outside Leeds General Infirmary
The hospital trust said it had been monitoring Amie Upton’s attendance at St James’s and Leeds General Infirmary since 2021. Photograph: Lynne Cameron/PA Media

A funeral director has been banned from working with hospitals in Leeds after a mother said she was left screaming when she found her dead baby propped up “watching” cartoons at the woman’s home.

Amie Upton has been banned from NHS maternity wards and mortuaries in the city after keeping babies’ bodies at her house in circumstances that a grandmother of another baby compared to a horror film.

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