A NATIONAL report into the retention of organs following investigations into suspicious deaths has shown that the local police force had just two outstanding samples.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) requested all forces to carry out an audit into samples that had been retained following investigations – including those for manslaughter and murder.
The Post revealed last summer that the police force had checked paperwork and files relating to 1,079 cases, dating back 25 years, and found that in about 10 per cent of them tissue from crime victims had been retained.
In each case, officers had visited relatives to discuss what to do with the body parts.
Avon and Somerset police confirmed that the two organs referred to in the ACPO report were the samples held at the end of the audit.
All others were either disposed of or passed to relatives after they were informed.
Anne Bundy, of Withywood, was told that her brother Nigel Evans had been buried without his brain after he died in December 2003. An investigation was carried out into his death because it was thought he had been punched before his death.
Ms Bundy said: "It was our loved ones and we respected them. It's not right to have kept their organs."
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