Sheriff grants permission for mass exhumation and reinterment in legal first
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A sheriff has granted permission for a church to exhume and rebury the cremated remains of over 100 people in what is believed to be a legal first.
The Scottish Episcopal Church applied to Glasgow Sheriff Court for permission to exhume the ashes of 107 people interred in the garden of remembrance at the former Holy Cross Church, which closed in 2013.
The property was sold to a private business in 2017 on the condition that the church arranged for the ashes to be moved elsewhere. Relatives were traced by the church and none of them objected.
Sheriff Andrew Cubie granted permission for the exhumation and the reinterment at St Bride’s Church in Hyndland, The Herald reports.
He said: “I am satisfied from the material presented that there is a necessity or high expediency in disinterring the remains and that they can be disinterred and re-interred with decency and respect into an atmosphere and situation akin to the previous garden.”
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