Mourning family find strange body in family burial site

A grief-stricken Luke Naidu had watched as gravediggers shifted rich brown earth from his family burial site before his brother’s funeral.

The grave – which holds the remains of Naidu’s grandmother and parents – should have lain undisturbed since 1988.

But as the men hacked at the soil they exposed a rotting corpse clad only in socks. Was this an administrative bungle, or something more nefarious?

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