Women try to take body on plane at Liverpool airport
The two women tried to check in the body on Saturday
Police have arrested two women after they tried to take the body of a dead relative onto a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
Staff at the airport became suspicious when the women tried to check the man in for a flight to Berlin on Saturday.
The 91-year-old man from Germany is thought to have died the previous day, and had been put into a wheelchair.
The women, aged 41 and 66, were arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of a death.
They have now been released on bail, police said.
Police are investigating reports that the body had been taken to the airport by taxi from Oldham, a spokesman said.
The two women tried to check in the body on Saturday
Police have arrested two women after they tried to take the body of a dead relative onto a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
Staff at the airport became suspicious when the women tried to check the man in for a flight to Berlin on Saturday.
The 91-year-old man from Germany is thought to have died the previous day, and had been put into a wheelchair.
The women, aged 41 and 66, were arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of a death.
They have now been released on bail, police said.
Police are investigating reports that the body had been taken to the airport by taxi from Oldham, a spokesman said.
