Sisters keep mother's body in fridge for ten years

For ten years Saville & Son, in a busy shopping street in North-West London, has been receiving weekly visits from two middle-aged sisters.

Valmai and Josephine Lamas visit separately but their purpose is the same. They come to see their mother, Annie, who died a decade ago aged 84.

The body of the widow has been kept refrigerated on the premises on the instructions of her two daughters and is brought into the funeral parlour's chapel of rest each weekend for the visits.



This bizarre, but entirely legal, arrangement has cost the sisters an estimated £13,600 in fees, replacement coffins - there have been five so far - and "make-up", including lipsticks and foundation, for their mother.

The daughters have paid £20 a week in fees, spent £2,000 on replacing four coffins as each rotted away, and £800 on make-up.

It is understood that the remains of Mrs Lamas are barely recognisable now.