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Helen Kreft & Brett Gibbons & Olimpia Zagnat

Horrified son jumped into grave as mum's coffin 'dropped in head first during burial'

A son has told of his horror when he jumped into his mum's grave because her coffin had been dropped head first when being lowered down.

Loved ones gasped when Doris Lonsdale's coffin was dropped in an event funeral directors said had never happened in the 21 years they have operated.

Her son Darren Clarke, who was so upset, couldn't watch as her coffin was lowered into the ground, Staffordshire Live reports.

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