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A cemetery buried new bodies over the graves of Covid victims just days after they were laid to rest, with their families saying they only found out after investigating community whispers .
Relatives of Basheer Meghjee - an accountant from Stanmore, north-west London who died last year aged 76 - were left in pieces after discovering that another person had been buried in his grave at Woodcock Hill Cemetery in Hertfordshire.
They warned family members of Mustafa Ibrahim, who lay in the next door plot, that the same could have happened to his resting place, with Mr Ibrahim s daughter feeling sick after these fears were confirmed.
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image captionWoodcock Hill Cemetery in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, has both a Christian and a Muslim section
The families of two men who died with Covid were distraught to discover bodies had been buried on top of their loved ones days after their funerals.
Relatives of Basheer Meghjee said they only found out another person had been placed in his grave in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, through rumours.
The family, who informed another that the same may have happened to them, added they had been left in pieces .
The cemetery s leaseholders said the family agreed to the two-tier burial.
Mr Meghjee, who lived in Stanmore, north-west London, died last year at the age of 76.