Hospital handed dead son's foot to family

A hospital has apologised to a pair of grieving parents after staff handed them a pair of trainers with part of their dead son's foot still in them.

Norman Wodhams and ex-wife Mary Collier were horrified to find the grisly remains after collecting their son's belongings from Worthing Hospital.

Matthew Wodhams, 28, fell to his death from the top floor of the Teville Gate car park in Worthing in August.

Norman Wodhams said that when he and his ex-wife, of Harvey Road, Worthing, picked up their son's remains they found one of his bones lodged inside the shoe.

"It was a bit of a shock. It shouldn't have happened but it did. We don't blame the nurses."

Beverley Thorp, the associate director of nursing at Worthing Hospital, said: "The trust would like to say that it is clear that our usual procedures were not followed on this sad occasion."