Women tried to get dead body on easyJet flight in Liverpool

Two women have been arrested for trying to push a dead relative strapped to a wheelchair onto a Berlin-bound flight at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

Police were called when staff at the easyJet check-in desk became suspicious about the elderly man who was partially hidden behind sunglasses and did not appear to be moving very much.

They discovered that the would-be passenger, understood to be a 91-year-old German national, was not asleep as his companions insisted but had been dead for some time.



Officers arrested the two women, aged 44 and 66, on suspicion of failing to give notification of a death. It is believed that the couple, who had travelled to the airport from Oldham, in Greater Manchester, were attempting to evade the complex and costly process of repatriating human remains abroad.

The coroner was today waiting for the results of the post mortem examination being carried out in Liverpool but police sources suggested that it was likely to show the man died earlier this week from natural causes.

A spokeswoman for John Lennon Aiport, said: “I have never heard of anything like this before. It is a bit of a strange one to be honest.”