Woman 'too large' to be cremated

A family have been told their dead mother could not be cremated in her home city because she was too large.

Penelope Stapleton from Norwich, who died last week of a heart attack at the age of 61, weighed 22 stone. (308 pounds, 140 kg).

Managers apologised to her family but still told them the coffin was too large for the facilities at Norwich's Earlham crematorium.

Michelle Franklin, 31, one of Penelope’s eight daughters, said: “It’s a disgrace. I want her to be cremated where she wanted. They should have facilities for large people.”