Family had someone else’s loved one cremated after mortuary released wrong body

It is understood human error was to blame for the ‘wrongful release’ of the body from the health board’s mortuary at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow (Picture: PA)

Hospital mortuary workers released the wrong body to a grieving family – with the error only discovered after the cremation had taken place.

Health bosses have launched a full investigation and apologised for the ‘terrible’ error.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde – Scotland’s largest health board –...