A CEMETERY worker who was suspended after a burial blunder has returned to work - despite the findings of a council inquiry.

An investigation was launched back in August when a woman from Birchwood claimed that her husband had been buried in the wrong grave and exhumed without her permission.

Widow Carol Gay, was told at her husband's wake that his body would have to be moved from a plot in the borough council run Fox Covert Cemetery to another place.

But she discovered later that the transfer had already taken place and her husband, who had died of heart failure, had been buried in another grave without her knowledge.

The cemetery worker who was suspended pending the outcome of the borough council investigation is now back at work.

The decision came after the worker, a Mr Jordan, appealed against his dismissal at a meeting of the council's employee appeals committee on September 30. He was given a written warning which will remain on his file for 12 months.

A Council spokesman said: "A full investigation has now been completed into the incident.

"The conclusion is that the incident was due to human error and action has been taken in respect of the member of staff concerned. Our policy is not to comment further on individual circumstances."

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