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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Chris Slater & Charlie Jones

'My wife's funeral was shocking and embarrassing as coffin jammed head-first in grave'

A bereaved husband was left heartbroken after his wife's coffin became "jammed head-first" during her funeral, not letting him give her the dignified send-off he hoped for.

Vincent McGuire, 60, lost his beloved wife Elaine, 53, last September after a long illness.

And he chose to have the "adored" mother-of-three and grandmother-of-two laid to rest just a short distance from the family home, Manchester Evening News reports.

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