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British woman had wrong body returned after losing her brother in Air India crash

Family of This Morning star who died in Air India crash had wrong body returned to UK
  • Arwen Greenlaw has revealed that her family received someone else’s remains mislabelled as her brother Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek, who died in the Air India crash.
  • She described the experience as the "equivalent of losing him twice".
  • Her mother had flown to India to retrieve what she believed were her son's remains, only to discover upon returning home that they were not his, Ms Greenlaw said.
  • The mislabelling was uncovered when a coroner ordered checks on remaining caskets, after the first returned crash victim was found to contain DNA from two different people.
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