Fuming widow says she's been mourning at the wrong grave for last 27 years

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the Mirror reports.Ms Walsham claims that her late husband would not have wanted his ashes to be kept in an urn as he was "very claustrophobic and scared of the dark" and would have wanted to be "set free".For nearly three decades, Mrs Walsham and her children visited the garden of rest at the East London Cemetery, West Ham, on Fathers' Days, birthdays and other occasions to mourn their lost relative.But in 2016, the family were shocked when it was claimed Mr Kenny's ashes were not where they thought they were.Rather than be scattered in the garden, it's been claimed the ashes were handed to his estranged mum, Iris Garbutt, and buried in an Essex grave.Mrs Garbutt's grandson James Briggs explained that the woman - who had fallen out with her son years before his death - claimed she secretly obtained his ashes from an employee of the cemetery and kept them in a grave that his wife and children didn't know about.Mr Briggs told the judge that his Nan claimed to have "acquired" the ashes from an employee at East London Cemetery and that Mrs Garbutt had "sent [the employee] a Christmas card every year" and said she was "eternally grateful" to her.She had also responded to questions about why her son's widow and children never visited the grave, saying she was "frightened they would call the police if they ever did so," Mr Briggs explained.The story eventually came out following Mrs Garbutt's death, and it was alleged the true resting place of Mr Kenny was Eastbrookend Cemetery, Dagenham - eight miles from the garden of rest where Mrs Walsham and her three children had been mourning.The grave was disinterred in 2016 and an urn containing what the family says was Mr Kenny's ashes was found, which were then scattered in the.