Women try to smuggle corpse onto plane
By Avril Ormsby/REUTERS
LONDON - Two women were arrested at a British airport on suspicion of trying to smuggle a dead relative onto a flight bound for Germany, police said on Tuesday.
The 91-year-old deceased man was pushed in a wheelchair through Liverpool’s John Lennon airport wearing sunglasses before check-in staff became suspicious and he was prevented from boarding the plane.
He was believed to have been driven about 35 miles (60 km) to the airport by taxi from Oldham, Greater Manchester, police added.
The women were arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of a death and were released on bail.
“At 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 3, 2010, police at Liverpool John Lennon airport were alerted to the death of a 91-year-old man in the terminal building,” police said in a statement.
“Two women aged 41 and 66 were arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of death.”
The cause of death is not known.
I'm really hoping these women had a good reason to pretend this old man was alive. I hope they found out he had some safety deposit box in Germany with the Hope Diamond in it and they needed him alive to get inside. Because if they were just trying to skimp on the funeral/undertaker services then they need to face serious jail time. Sometimes its okay to parade a dead guy around for a few days. You know, like if he invited you to his beach house for a three-day vacation and then you found out he was plotting to kill you.
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