A couple found the body of their daughter’s daughter lying on the couch at a director’s house, saying their child was “robbed her dignity”.
Kodi and Liam Townand’s daughter, Mackie-Mai, was still congenital at Leeds Hospital in January, the pair appointed Amy Upton to oversee their funeral.
Earlier this week, an investigation by the BBC reported that Ms. Upton was banned from entering the mortars and maternity wards of any trust of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, so that she was to keep the bodies of infants at her house.
Ms. Upton has earlier stated that she received only two complaints in eight years of supporting her child’s loss and running funeral service, Flori’s army.
Talking to BBC Newsnight, the couple said that they came to know that Ms. Upton had placed her daughter’s body at her house, six miles from the funeral parlor where she believed that her body was being taken care of.
Sri and Mrs. Townnde said that she was wrapped in a blanket on a couch at a couch at Ms. Upton’s house, 10 days later she saw her.
Mrs. Townand said: “I was mortgaged. I did not know what to say, what to think was not to think.
“It was terrible. It seemed that she was a mother, as if we were not the parents of that child. It is as if she had taken everything.
“The dignity is the one who was robbed of Mackey-Mai. He had no dignity.”
Mr. Townnde said that the couple only wanted to get their child out of the house, “quickly”, Ms. Upton’s behavior was “not normal”.
He said: “The child should have been in a chapel of rest and it was not, so we were liking, ‘What is going on here?” ,
The West Yorkshire police said that it had investigated the Flori’s army, but no possible crimes were identified after the “comprehensive inquiry”.
Ms. Upton first told the BBC that she had only two complaints about service in eight years.
Talking to daily mirror on ThursdayHe said that in his care, the children “knew nothing but love” and the bodies kept at his house were never left alone.
Sri and Mrs. Townnde, who visit their daughter’s grave every day, have called for more regulation of the funeral industry.
The couple were trying to have a child for four years before imagining Mackie-Mai.
Mrs. Townand said: “It is difficult to open our own burger van, as it is to open its own funeral home.
“It needs to be replaced. [regulations] We were already in place, we will not have to go through it. ,
Mr. Townnde said: “If there is no rule around the funeral directors, how are you going to be safe now, at least when you pass?”
“When you are at that stage of life and you pass, you still need a sense of security. You are still entitled to human rights.”
Earlier this week, Townennd MP Mark Sawards said that he was emphasizing new powers to regulate the industry. And said that he would “hold the government’s feet for flames” to implement any recommendation “.
The government has stated that the affected families “expected their children to behave with dignity and respect” and it was “considering the full range of options to improve the standards in the funeral industry”.
