Baby's body put in woman's coffin

Two funeral workers who put the body of a baby between the legs of a dead grandmother in her coffin would be "despised and reviled", a judge said.

Mark Eshelby of East Lothian and Graeme Skidmore of Northallerton put Benjamin Judson's body in with the woman because they had bungled the child's funeral.



Both men were handed 18-month suspended sentences at York Crown Court and were each fined £5,000.

Benjamin's parents had grieved at an empty grave for nine years.