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
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.
Police apologise for keeping body parts
Police have admitted preserving body parts in suspicious death cases for years after the cases were solved.