Women Try To Fly With Corpse At Liverpool Airport

Earlier this month, a wife and daughter allegedly tried to smuggle the corpse of the family’s 91-year-old patriarch onto a flight and were detained at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport “on suspicion of failing to give notification of death.”  The deceased’s 66-year-old wife, Gitta Jarant insisted he was alive when they arrived at the airport:

I’m not a smuggler. My Willi only died at the airport. He suddenly looked so lifeless, like a wax figure. His fingernails turned blue all of a sudden. At home he was still warm — I swear!

That Curt Willi Jarrant, who was in a wheelchair and was wearing sunglasses, was discovered by an airport worker who helped the two women lift his body from a taxi.

Andrew Millea said the man’s face fell against his, and it was “ice cold”.

“I knew straight away that the man was dead, but they reassured me that he ‘always sleeps like that’,” he said.

Mr Millea said he alerted security staff at the airport and the family was led to a side room where first-aid staff confirmed the man was dead.

A police spokesman reports that a pathologist has concluded the man died of natural causes up to 12 hours before he was pronounced dead at the airport.  The women remain free on bail until June.

And if you think there’s no chance you could ever end up flying with corpse, The Guardian quickly found a barrister with a story about a haunting flight from Kenya to the UK:

A man had died and the cabin crew had just left him in his seat and put a towel over his head. They had moved the two people sitting on either side of him, but the people in front hadn’t been moved. In London we had to fill out a form detailing our whereabouts in case he had died of something contagious. But I was never contacted, so I assume it wasn’t. And no, I have never flown with that airline again.

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