Cremated son turns up alive...

tolosenc

Reuters wrote:

A mother cremated a body she thought was that of her dead son, only for him to turn up alive later, police said on Friday.

Gina Partington's 37-year-old son Thomas Dennison was reported missing last month and a body was found in Rusholme, Manchester, three days later.

The 58-year-old mother, from Urmston, Greater Manchester, formally identified the body as that of her son and, following an inquest, the body was cremated on October 30.

But police had actually found Dennison, living rough in Nottingham, four days earlier.

The case has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission to discover why Partington was not told of her son's discovery in the days before she attended the cremation.

Inquiries are continuing to formally establish the identity of the body, but Greater Manchester police said they believe they know who he is.

Next of kin have been informed.

Police said in a statement: "This set of circumstances is clearly distressing and urgent inquiries are ongoing to establish how this happened."

Linky

:eek:

Jesus Wept

Standard.

FruitLover

Bit thick formally identifying him as her son if it was someone else tbh

Feral Mutant

"I thought you were dead"
"I wasn't quite dead"
"You were cremated"
". . . . . i got better"

randylonghorn

FruitLover wrote: »

Bit thick formally identifying him as her son if it was someone else tbh

Aye ... after three days!!?

Not like he had been lying in a ditch for months, or something.

Not quite the whole story, I suspect.

Overheal

very odd.

well **** - someones been robbed a funeral, while somebody is gonna have a second.

roadrunner41

Hate when that happens...

arybvtcw0eolkf

randylonghorn wrote: »

Not quite the whole story, I suspect.

There's no smoke without fire

(yea yea yea, poor joke)

Cuddlesworth

"I thought I said I never wanted to be cremated?"

layke

randylonghorn wrote: »

Aye ... after three days!!?

Jesus was a pussy.

RuggieBear

layke wrote: »

Jesus was a pussy.

LOL

Rob_l

Bit inconsiderate of the chap
all the work his mother put into making his funeral nice and he doesn't even turn up.

jester77

That reminds me of another story I heard about some guy who dies and comes back to life... think he died on a Friday and showed up again on the Sunday, can't remember the guys name, but it was a mad story!

Jesus Wept

I think it was a Stephen King story.

Kipperhell

bodies can be difficult to visual ID if they have been in water or decomposed. A distressed parent may easily make the mistake.

Wertz

Am I the only one who feels sorry for the poor Joe Bloggs that got put in the toaster without even a proper ID? That's the tragedy here, not that police failed to inform the mother who couldn't reccy her own son :rolleyes: ...I wonder had he a life insurance policy...

arybvtcw0eolkf

Wertz wrote: »

Am I the only one who feels sorry for the poor Joe Bloggs that got put in the toaster without even a proper ID? That's the tragedy here, not that police failed to inform the mother who couldn't reccy her own son :rolleyes: ...I wonder had he a life insurance policy...

Probably wasn't the brightest spark in the fire either!.

Rhiannon14

oh, the puns, the puns! *dies...and is reborn from the ashes*