Lydia Reid will finally be able to bury her son Gary after decades of campaigning for answers.
Lydia Reid has been campaigning for decades to find out what happened to her son's bodyA terminally ill mother has finally had her baby son's remains returned to her almost 50 years after he died.She later discovered his organs had been removed for tests, and five years ago experts established that his coffin did not contain human remains.
Ms Reid, who is currently in the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, said she would check herself out for 24 hours in order to be able to hold his funeral on Saturday.Remains from the grave were transferred to a white coffin after the exhumation in 2017 About 6,000 organs and tissues were kept by Scottish hospitals between 1970 and 2000, many from children.
In September 2017, a court order was granted which allowed an exhumation to be carried out at Saughton Cemetery in Edinburgh.Forensic anthropologist Prof Dame Sue Black concluded the coffin had been buried without containing any human remains. Ms Reid said that when Gary's funeral was held in the 1970s, his coffin was carried in the front seat of the car because they did not have a way of securing small coffins in the back.
She paid tribute to Labour MSP Foysol Choudhury and his assistant for helping to get her son's body parts returned.
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