Source: The Guardian
BY Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent
Police have opened an investigation after a broken skull, a shoulder blade and leg-bones were among suspected human remains discovered lying uncovered in a cemetery.
The bones include a partial skeleton and were found at the privately owned Tottenham Park cemetery in north London by a group of campaigners who fear that graves are being dug up and reused without consent amid a nationwide shortage of burial space.
More bones have been found by members of the Tottenham Park Cemetery Action Group who have relatives buried there. Police and a leading forensic pathologist have confirmed to the Guardian that some of the bones discovered in recent months are human remains. Tests are pending on others, according to Scotland Yard.
Categories: Europe, London, The Muslim Times, UK
In Swiss church burial grounds it is absolutely ‘normal’ to ‘make place’ as soon as the ground is full. All old graves are cleared. I do not actually know what they do with all the bones. The family just receives a note that ‘you may collect the grave stone if you like’ …
sort of ‘change the names’ and you can use the stone for your own burial (next generation)…