Ireland's Norman Bates

DonJose · 05-11-2010 10:39am #1

Just when I thought this country couldn't be more fukked up. Woman dies in September and her is driving around Ireland and the UK with her body :eek:

The body of an elderly woman that was taken from a plane in Gatwick Airport and unofficially driven to Co Kerry by her son for burial is thought to be back in the UK.

Gardai believe the woman's body may have been driven to the UK via Northern Ireland by her son after he was warned by a coroner that if he did not bury the body it would be confiscated and put in cold storage at his expense.

The matter came to light when Kerry Coroner Terence Casey was contacted by the gardai after the landlord of a rented house in Kenmare reported there was a dead body lying in repose there.

"The man had contacted his landlord saying he would have to break the terms of his lease because his mother had taken ill in Malta," Mr Casey told the Irish Independent. "When the landlord called to the house to clean it, he met the man who told him his mother was lying in repose upstairs if he wanted to pay his respects."

The landlord then notified the gardai that there was a dead body in the house. Gardai contacted the coroner, who served a notice on him on October 25 that if he did not bury his mother the body would be confiscated and put in cold storage art his expense.

When gardai called to the house a number of days later to see if the man had complied with the coroner's request there was no trace of the body or him.

"There had not been hair or trace or him ever since and we don't know what he did with the body," Mr Casey said.

He added that his concern was that the body would have begun to decompose, even though it had been embalmed, and would pose a threat to public health.

The woman had died in Malta in September and her body was repatriated to the UK. Mr Casey said her body had been collected at Gatwick Airport by her son, who then drove it to Ireland in his car without contacting the authorities.

"You are supposed to notify the authorities, you cannot just bring a body into the country, and this was not authorised. I checked the paperwork into the UK and this was in order, and I gave the relative an ultimatum that he organise a burial or I would confiscate the body," Mr Casey said.

He also said that because the body was no longer believed to be in Kerry, the matter had moved outside his jurisdiction.

The woman and her relative are understood to be originally from the UK but had been living in Kenmare for some time.

Two separate funeral directors in Kenmare confirmed they had not been approached to make funeral arrangements.

- Majella O'Sullivan

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/son-flees-to-uk-with-mothers-body-2408595.html

FatherLen · 05-11-2010 10:42am

tha's naasty

Notorious97 · 05-11-2010 10:59am

Typical culchies for you (yes i am aware it says they are originally from the UK, i don’t care though haha)

policarp · 05-11-2010 11:08am

The wierd saga of the Maltese mummy.

Executive Steve · 05-11-2010 11:09am

Whoa, it's like Weekend at Bernie's only with more yuckles and less chuckles...

Duggy747 · 05-11-2010 11:24am

*note to self*

Do not pull in at any B&Bs that are in the middle of nowhere.

People are so quick to judge, maybe he just wanted to make a jacket out of her skin?

FatherLen · 05-11-2010 11:27am

Duggy747 wrote: »

*note to self*

Do not pull in at any B&Bs that are in the middle of nowhere.

People are so quick to judge, maybe he just wanted to make a jacket out of her skin?

your going to hell for that one

curlzy · 05-11-2010 11:30am

Ah the poor guy, he obviously has issues.:(

AnonoBoy · 05-11-2010 11:40am

What's that mother?

Flee the country?

If you say so!

policarp · 05-11-2010 11:45am

Pack up your mother in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile...

pinkyponk2 · 05-11-2010 11:47am

Heard this on the radio today, pretty shocking!

They said its thought he was driving his car with his mothers corpse either in the boot or sitting in the passenger seat :eek:

syklops · 05-11-2010 12:02pm

pinkyponk2 wrote: »

Heard this on the radio today, pretty shocking!

They said its thought he was driving his car with his mothers corpse either in the boot or sitting in the passenger seat :eek:

Well you know what thought did.

inode · 05-11-2010 12:05pm

He prob has her in the backseat with sunglasses on her

Duggy747 · 05-11-2010 12:08pm

Eddie O'Gein?

pinkyponk2 · 05-11-2010 12:09pm

syklops wrote: »

Well you know what thought did.

Peed in his bed and thought he was sweating?

syklops · 08-11-2010 3:44pm

pinkyponk2 wrote: »

Peed in his bed and thought he was sweating?

My primary teacher used to say, stuck a feather in the ground and thought a hin(she meant hen) would grow. Everytime I heard this, I wanted to scream at her "Is school not about learning to think for your self??". As it turns out, its not.