Leon
18-04-2003, 10:34
I hope whoever did this rots...
LONDON (Reuters) - Police say they have launched an investigation after a Muslim woman's dead body was desecrated in a London hospital.
Family of the 65-year-old woman discovered rashers of bacon had been placed on her body while it was laid in the mortuary of Hillingdon Hospital, in north west London.
It is strictly against the Muslim religion to touch or eat pork.
"This is a particularly grotesque act which has outraged the family as well as the whole community," Detective Chief Inspector Tony Hester said, adding the matter was being treated as a racially motivated crime.
Police, who along with the hospital are offering a 5,000 pound reward for help in catching those responsible, said the incident had occurred in January.
The woman had died of cancer and the hospital had arranged for her family to view her corpse the following day, when the bacon was discovered.
"It is sickening to see the body of the dead desecrated in this manner," Inayat Bunglawala, of the Muslim Council of Britain, told the Guardian newspaper.
"The fact bacon was put there, which Muslims regard as unclean, is very deliberate and designed to hurt the grieving family."
LONDON (Reuters) - Police say they have launched an investigation after a Muslim woman's dead body was desecrated in a London hospital.
Family of the 65-year-old woman discovered rashers of bacon had been placed on her body while it was laid in the mortuary of Hillingdon Hospital, in north west London.
It is strictly against the Muslim religion to touch or eat pork.
"This is a particularly grotesque act which has outraged the family as well as the whole community," Detective Chief Inspector Tony Hester said, adding the matter was being treated as a racially motivated crime.
Police, who along with the hospital are offering a 5,000 pound reward for help in catching those responsible, said the incident had occurred in January.
The woman had died of cancer and the hospital had arranged for her family to view her corpse the following day, when the bacon was discovered.
"It is sickening to see the body of the dead desecrated in this manner," Inayat Bunglawala, of the Muslim Council of Britain, told the Guardian newspaper.
"The fact bacon was put there, which Muslims regard as unclean, is very deliberate and designed to hurt the grieving family."