40-year campaign to exhume baby's body produces empty coffin

Lydia Reid believed that the remains of her son Gary, who died at seven-days-old were missing – and she was correct

A mother who campaigned for over 40 years to find out what happen to her dead baby’s remains has found out his coffin was buried without a body inside.

Lydia Reid, 68, was given a court order for the exhumation of the grave of her son Gary, who died at Edinburgh’s Sick Kids hospital in July 1975 aged seven days old and no human remains were found.

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from Children | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2vRHT3k