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Nazir Afzal, the former chief prosecutor, claimed that his brother’s body was kept in an industrial refrigerator for days.
Afzal said his older brother Umar, 71, died in Birmingham on April 8.
They kept it in the refrigerator due to a “300 corpse build-up” after Covid-19 died, a date believed to be the UK peak.
The coronavirus pandemic has triggered an unprecedented health crisis in the UK, with a current death toll of around 18,000.
In Birmingham, a hospital trust has seen more than 500 deaths, more than anywhere else in the country, as the deadly virus hits Midlands badly.
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Afzal said his brother, a former interpreter for the Interior Ministry, “went to bed that night and then didn’t wake up.”
“They had no space in the morgue, so arrangements were made with a private funeral home,” Afzal told the BBC.
Her brother was picked up at 6 p.m. the next day, after a funeral home revealed that it had 14 bodies to pick up on April 9.
Afzal said: “He stayed in bed for most of the eight hours … the whole family was there and we wore masks and gloves.
“The undertaker appeared but it is political that they do not enter the house, he gave us the body bag and we took him up the stairs.”
He added: “The coroner informed us that they had an accumulation of 300 corpses and they said that they would get us the certificate after the bank holiday, they worked during that weekend, so accept them.”
“My brother was one of the many bodies held there, he was there for six days,” he added, referring to the tents outside the Birmingham mosques.
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