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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Susan Newton & Ashlie Blakey

Family's desperate campaign to stop sex offender dad being buried with his son

The family of a man who died more than 20 years ago is desperately campaigning for a convicted sex offender not to be buried in the grave next to him.

Stephen Lee Wilcock, from Blackburn, was 18 when he passed away suddenly in 1998. His sister Bethany Jackson is now campaigning for the rights of his burial spot 24 years on, LancsLive reports.

It comes after Stephen's father, Kevin Harrison, was convicted of a child sex offence against a boy and jailed last month. Harrison currently owns the plot next to his son Stephen and wishes to be buried there.

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