An East Riding of Yorkshire Council spokesperson said: “We are still investigating, but there seems to have been a miscommunication between the family, the funeral directors and the council over which grave was to be reopened and used for this burial, as the family owns two plots next door to each other at Driffield Cemetery.
Apology to heartbroken widow after husband’s grave dug up by mistake East Riding of Yorkshire Council was forced to apologise for what it called a ‘miscommunication’.
Jenny Thurlow, 74, discovered her late husband Peter’s grave in Driffield Cemetery, East Yorkshire, had been unearthed in a burial plot mix-up.
A council has apologise to a widow left “absolutely heartbroken” after she found her husband’s grave was dug up by mistake.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council and undertaker apolof to Mrs Thurlow in what they branded a “miscommunication”.
