Son arrested for exhuming mother’s body and taking her coffin home

The man has only been identified by his initial, R.A.D.(Picture: Google)

A man has been arrested after he removed his late mother’s body from her grave in a Spanish cemetery and drove her coffin home.

The man told an investigating judge that he just wanted to check that his mother was really gone, as her death three days earlier had occurred so suddenly.

Witnesses at the La Carriona municipal cemetery in Aviles informed a local priest that a man had walked to the funeral niche where his mother had been laid to rest...