Dead Funny

From the BBC 6th April 2010

Police have arrested two women after they tried to take the body of a dead relative onto a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport. Staff at the airport became suspicious when the women tried to check the man in for a flight to Berlin on Saturday. The 91-year-old man from Germany is thought to have died the previous day, and had been put into a wheelchair.

The women pushed the 91-year-old man in a wheelchair and covered his face with sunglasses in a bid to board him on their flight to Berlin, sources said. The pair, a 41-year-old and a 66-year-old, are said to have protested that the lifeless pensioner was merely asleep when probed by officials at Liverpool John Lennon Airport on Saturday.

Staff became suspicious when they tried to check in 91-year-old Curt Willi Jarant, who was wearing sunglasses, for a flight to Berlin on Saturday. The women - his widow and step-daughter - said they thought he was asleep. They were arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of a death, police said. The pair, who are German nationals but live in Oldham, Greater Manchester, have been released on bail until 1 June. It is understood they took Mr Jarant to the airport in a taxi from Oldham, a spokesman said.