Police admission on body parts
A report finds police in England and Wales unnecessarily kept nearly 500 major body parts without telling the relatives of those who died.
In numbers: Police forces admit keeping body parts
- The Metropolitan Police kept 39 major body parts
- Merseyside stored 37
- Cambridgeshire found 35
- West Yorkshire recorded 31
- A total of 13 forces said they did not hold any body parts
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Police face awkward apologies over victim body parts
Police chiefs have been forced to apologise to grieving families after it emerged body parts from suspicious deaths were kept needlessly.
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Police apologise for keeping body parts
Police have admitted preserving body parts in suspicious death cases for years after the cases were solved.