Article 6ZGWX ‘It’s gruesome’: fears of grave-robbing amid rise in sale of human remains

‘It’s gruesome’: fears of grave-robbing amid rise in sale of human remains

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Roland Hughes and Hannah Devlin
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Social media is helping drive trade in skulls, bones and skin products as UK legal void risks new era of body snatching'

When it comes to human stuff, I'll take anything, pretty much," says Henry Scragg. As long as it's been ethically sourced, may I add."

Speaking from his macabre curiosities shop in Essex in a recent YouTube interview, Scragg wears a shabby bowler hat, has tribal-style face tattoos and a ginger beard that descends into three pendulous dreadlocks.

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