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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chiara Giordano

Widow ‘mourned at wrong grave for 27 years after husband’s ashes secretly given to his mother’

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A widow who says she mourned at the wrong grave for 27 years is suing a funeral giant, claiming her husband’s ashes were secretly given to his estranged mother.

Kathleen Walsham says she asked for the remains of Kieron Kenny, 43, to be scattered in a garden of rest near their east London home rather than interred in an urn when he died in 1989 because he was “very claustrophobic and scared of the dark”.

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