Lydia Reid believed that the remains of her son Gary, who died at the age of seven days, were missing. Reid, who played a leading role in the Scottish campaign to uncover the unlawful retention of dead children’s body parts for research, said the news was “devastating”. She told the BBC: “We had the funeral, and on the day of the funeral I stated clearly there’s nothing in this coffin. Black told the BBC: “Ultimately there is only one possible logical explanation and that is that the body was not put in that coffin. “There is no other answer because you never get that level of preservation of coffin and not have a body be preserved.

Source: The Guardian September 01, 2017 22:25 UTC