NHS trust pays damages after letting man’s body become ‘unviewable’

Exclusive: Widow says she has struggled to grieve for her husband properly after mortuary failed to follow procedures

A widow received damages from an NHS trust after a mortuary allowed the body of her late husband to decompose to the point he was unviewable", the Guardian can reveal.

Caroline Murray said she had struggled to grieve properly and suffered from intrusive mental images of what the body of her husband, Paul, would have looked like in an advanced state of decomposition.