Friends hit out over body mix-up of Falklands Veterans Body

A friend of a woman who appears to have been mistakenly buried at the funeral of a man who died in police custody more than a decade ago has said her family felt they had been treated with "no humanity".
A council chief has apologised and said she was "appalled and distraught" after discovering the body of former paratrooper Christopher Alder had turned up at a mortuary in Hull after he was believed to have been buried.
Mr Alder, 37, choked to death while handcuffed and lying on the floor of a police station in Hull, in the early hours of April 1 1998. It now appears a Hull pensioner called Grace Kamara was buried in his place.Read More HERE R.I.P.

I still cannot get my head around this appalling situation, something very wrong has happened here on many counts. Nothing that we are told makes any sense. One thing is for sure Falklands Veteran Christopher Alder and his family and Grace Camara have been shamefully let down by local Government at Hull City. It begs the question how many others has this happened to? I would like to see Christopher receive a full military funeral and finally be laid to rest, but that would obviously be up to his relatives. I wrote this poem in dedication to Christopher a few years ago.



Thank you soldier for your duty in Iraq
But unfortunately you still need to wait at the back
Our Doctors are busy
Our Nurses are stressed
We will get around to seeing you
Were Doing our best
The soldiers chair is empty
He’s gone to his meds
A bottle of cheap whisky
Will sort our his head
Sat on a park bench he screams at the moon
He smashed the bottle then whistles a tune
His Regimental March
He needs another drink
He pulls up his collar
Smelling his own stink
Along comes two policeman
They tell him to move
He asks why he should?
They say their not in the mood
They drag him from the bench
Then put in the boot
He’s back in Iraq being attacked by a mob
They kick and they punch and they bite and they stab
The cops take him to hospital
He screams, "I’ve been in Iraq"
They tell him to keep his mouth shut
And sit at the back.


© Tony McNally