‘I was given the ashes of a complete stranger instead of my mum’

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Police are investigating a funeral home after claims a woman was given ashes of a ‘complete stranger’ instead of her mum in a horrifying mix-up.

Anne Gibson, 66, who lives in Harpurhey with her brother Brian, 51, claims she was handed a box of ashes from A Milne Funeral Directors in Scotland in September - five months after her mum’s funeral.

Anne said she and her brother, originally from Scotland, placed the box of ashes on a shelf alongside their mum’s favourite teddy at their home in Harpurhey.

The grieving siblings kept the urn there for months. It 'never crossed their minds' it may not contain their mother's ashes. READ MORE: Police want to speak to this man after report of 'predatory' upskirting outside bar on busy street Anne claims that in February of this year when she decided to scatter the ashes she noticed the box did not include any paperwork or a plaque that identified her mother and became suspicious. “I thought that’s strange there’s nothing saying that that’s my mum,” she said.