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Will Durrant

Government should close loophole which allows sale of human remains, says MP

An MP has told the Commons she had heard cases of body parts being sold online and in auction houses (Alamy/PA) -

Instagram, Etsy and Gumtree users could exploit a legal loophole to buy and sell colonial-era human remains, an MP fears.

Bell Ribeiro-Addy told the Commons she had heard cases of body parts sold online and in auction houses, including a human thigh bone turned into a cane, a human jawbone necklace and the varnished skull of a six-year-old.

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