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BBC News 25 Jun 10
The exhumation has taken place of a Walsall man who was buried in a grave reserved for someone else.
Daniel Hastelow, 26, was murdered in Majorca and buried in November 2009 in St John’s churchyard, Walsall Wood, in a plot reserved for a widow. On Friday morning, his body was reburied in a new grave in the churchyard…
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Chris Henwood B'ham Mail 27 May 10
The family of a murdered Walsall Wood bricklayer could yet overturn a court ruling that his body should be exhumed after he was buried in the wrong grave.
The Diocese of Lichfield’s provincial registrar has granted Danny Hastelow’s family leave to appeal against the decision of a rare Consistory Court hearing last month…
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B'ham Post 11 May 10
The body of murder victim, Danny Hastelow, buried in the wrong grave has still not been exhumed more than a month after an order was made for him to be moved. A rare Consistory Court hearing last month ruled Mr Hastelow, who was laid to rest in a plot marked for a widow, should be reburied in 28 days.
But it has emerged his family has missed the deadline and now the Archdeacon of Walsall Chris Sims must make the arrangements…
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BBC News 7 Apr 10
Burial rules in the Diocese of Lichfield have been changed after a mix-up with grave plots which led to a court ordering an exhumation of a Walsall Wood man.
Daniel Hastelow, 26, was murdered in Majorca and buried in 2009 in St John’s churchyard, Walsall Wood, in a plot reserved for a widow, Jean Best. Mrs Best requested an exhumation so that she could be buried beside her late husband Michael. The church upheld her request and said it would mark reserved plots in future…
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Chris Henwood B'ham Mail 7 Apr 10
The daughter of a Midland widow told of her relief after a judge ruled a grave where a murdered bricklayer was wrongly buried should be given back to her mother.
Jeanette Roper, of Walsall Wood, welcomed the decision to exhume the body of Danny Hastelow, who was mistakenly laid to rest in a plot reserved for her 71-year-old mother, Jean Best…
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BBC News 6 Apr 10
The body of a murdered man who was buried in the wrong plot in Walsall Wood is to be exhumed, a church court judge has decided.
Daniel Hastelow, 26, was stabbed to death in Majorca in 2008 and his body was laid to rest in St John’s churchyard in November. However, the plot had been reserved by Jean Best so she could be buried next to her late husband Michael.
Judge Marten Coates ruled that an exhumation was “reasonable”…
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B'ham Mail 29 Mar 10
A vicar has apologised to a Church of England court for a “foolish mistake” which led to a murder victim being buried in the wrong grave at St John’s Church in Walsall Wood.
The Consistory Court of the Diocese of Lichfield heard that the body of Daniel Hastelow was buried in a reserved grave after the Rev Nigel Carter forgot to mark out the correct burial plot…
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Chris Henwood B’ham Mail 27 Feb 10
The legal fight for a grave where murdered bricklayer Danny Hastelow was mistakenly buried is to take place next month. Danny, from Walsall Wood, was stabbed to death in a Spanish apartment after celebrating his 26th birthday in January 2008. But after a long battle to bring his killer to justice and repatriate Mr Hastelow’s body, the heartbreak of his family was extended when he was buried in the wrong grave at St John’s Church last November…
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B'ham Post 2 Dec 09
Two families arguing over a Walsall Wood burial plot where the body of murdered bricklayer lies remained at loggerheads despite the efforts of church leaders…
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Express & Star 23 Nov 09
Talks to resolve the blunder of a murder victim being buried in the wrong grave could potentially drag on for weeks. The body of Daniel Hastelow, from Walsall Wood, who was murdered in Spain nearly two years ago, was buried in a grave which was reserved for a widow to be buried next to her husband. The Diocese of Lichfield is currently organising talks between the two families…