Exclusive: Mother of Cameron Whelan developed PTSD after body deteriorated to such an extent relatives were advised not to view it
A woman has been paid damages by antrust after developing post-traumatic stress disorder when a mortuary allowed her son’s body to decompose to such an extent that relatives were advised not to view it, the Guardian can reveal.
Five months passed before the family were able to bury Cameron, by which time his body had severely decomposed because mortuary staff at themortuary, run by the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, had not frozen him. Speaking to the Guardian, Deborah said: “It’s been horrific. It’s been absolutely horrendous. I didn’t know these types of things could happen. When I found out, I thought to myself: how can somebody just watch a body deteriorate the way they have been week after week?
His body was transferred to the Coventry mortuary on 31 May 2018 and a postmortem gave a provisional cause of death as immersion consistent with drowning, court documents seen by the Guardian show. It was not until October that Whelan’s family learned that the body was in an “advanced decomposition”. The family were warned against viewing the body as “this may cause further distress”.
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