Action demanded over grave 'mistake'

The grave bore the body and name of someone else

A man who visited his father's grave for the first time in years was horrified to find another person's body in it.

Philip Fox, 61, found his father's plot in the Northern Cemetery, in Hull, but was confused to discover the cross on the grave bore the name of someone else.

His temper boiled over when cemetery staff dug up part of the grave and found another man had been buried on top of his father - who died 30 years ago.

Speaking to BBC Radio Humberside's Soapbox show he said: "The cemetery say they were given permission to bury another man there but by who?

Grave shortage

"I am the only member of immediate family still alive and it came as a complete shock to me.

"I hadn't visited the grave in many years because I always preferred to remember my father as he was.

"What makes me angry is that there is not even any indication on the cross that he is even buried there.

"It is almost as if he never existed."

Councillor Janet Toker said Hull faces a chronic shortage of plots over the next two years but said: "I have offered to investigate Mr Fox's case.

"Burying more than one person in a plot does happen but it certainly should not happen without the permission of the family."