Muslim families campaign for grave deeds at Woodcock Hill Cemetery
When a set of Muslim families discovered their dead relatives had a stranger buried on top of them during the first lockdown, a campaign kickstarted…
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When a set of Muslim families discovered their dead relatives had a stranger buried on top of them during the first lockdown, a campaign kickstarted…
A family were in “absolute disbelief” to discover their dead relative had a stranger buried on top of their loved one days after the funeral. Basheer Meghjee – a 76-year-old semi-retired accountant from Stanmore who also had links to Croxley Green – was laid to rest at Woodcock Hill Cemetery in Rickmansworth after he died of Covid-19 on March 25 last year. On March 27 he was buried at the Muslim section of the cemetery that is leased to the charity BW Foundation and co-managed with Three Rivers District Council. Then just 12 days later after the funeral, his family were unawar...
A cemetery buried new bodies over the graves of Covid victims just days after they were laid to rest, with their families saying they only found out after investigating 'community whispers'. Relatives of Basheer Meghjee - an accountant from Stanmore, north-west London who died last year aged 76 - were left 'in pieces' after discovering that another person had been buried in his grave at Woodcock Hill Cemetery in Hertfordshire. They warned family members of Mustafa Ibrahim, who lay in the next door plot, that the same could have happened to his resting place, with Mr Ibrahim's daughter f...
BBC News Published image captionWoodcock Hill Cemetery in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, has both a Christian and a Muslim section The families of two men who died with Covid were distraught to discover bodies had been buried on top of their loved ones days after their funerals. Relatives of Basheer Meghjee said they only found out another person had been placed in his grave in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, through rumours. The family, who informed another that the same may have happened to them, added they had been left "in pieces". The cemetery's leaseholders said the family agreed to the tw...