Scottish family given stranger's ashes after mother's death

A woman has told Sky News she 'screamed' when she discovered the ashes she had been given from a funeral director months earlier were the remains of a stranger and not her mother. Anne Gibson, 66, believed the urn of ashes was that of Patricia Alison, but months later she discovered her mum's remains were still at the crematorium. Ms Gibson told Sky News: 'I literally screamed.

' Ms Gibson contacted West Dunbartonshire Council and was put in touch with Clydebank Crematorium. It was then a 'lovely man on the phone' said there was 'no easy way' to tell her that he didn't know whose ashes she had or where that person had been cremated. Ms Gibson said: 'But he did know it wasn't my mum's ashes I had - because my mum's ashes were still there.' The ashes were collected immediately and scattered on the family plot in Glasgow.

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