- Specialist mortuary vehicle was taken in for a broken tail light
- NHS employee suspended and health chiefs have apologised
- Campaigner Margaret Watt said it was ‘absolutely horrendous’
Patients’ campaigner Margaret Watt said the body blunder was ‘absolutely horrendous’.
She stormed: ‘Who would have ever thought that someone’s body could just be left in the back of a van? It’s disgraceful.
‘What were the drivers doing? Surely they must have known that they weren’t just on a day out and that they actually had a body in the back of the van
‘The corpse could have been there for days if the mechanics hadn’t found it. This is totally unacceptable and it should never have happened.’
The van belonged to NHS Grampian and was used to transport bodies to the city mortuary in Aberdeen. The body was found on Wednesday when it arrived at the AM Phillip garage in the city.
Mrs Watts, of the Scottish Patients Association, added: ‘My heart goes out to the family and a simple apology from NHS Grampian isn’t enough.
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