Collector of creepy antiques woken by police demanding to see inside kid's coffin

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sleep because of the stress from cops turning up at his door and demanding to see inside a baby's coffin.John Long was mortified when officers showed up to his Killingworth home to follow up reports he had a casket built for a youngster.The 68-year-old told Chronicle Live he found it “totally embarrassing” that he had to prove to the officers there was nothing dodgy in the box.READ MORE: Inside UK's worst heatwave in 500 years - 70m pints, closed schools and 'zombie nation'He explained: “I'm a collector of antiques and I'm a huge horror fan so I have lots of different things in my house.“Some people may say I shouldn't have that kind of thing in my house, but no one usually sees it but me."The coffin was in the corner of my bedroom and I had to open it to show them what was inside.“There was a doll in there and they had a look inside and were quite happy with it so they left.“The officer was lovely but it was totally embarrassing."The grandad-of-three said he was out when the police first called at the door, leaving him “so stressed” with his heart “racing” as he didn’t know what they wanted.He said: "The whole thing has got me really upset, I couldn't sleep at all last night.“I just thought what a carry-on, there has been all this trouble for nothing.

I've been made to feel like a bad person.Stay in the loop with all the latest Daily Star news by signing up to one of our free newsletters here."It's just caused so much stress and heartache, it's been awful.