A GERMAN professor whose exhibits of preserved human corpses have caused controversy worldwide, yesterday unveiled two of the macabre exhibits at the launch of his latest morbid project.

Body Worlds can go ahead this weekend in Munich, a court has ruled, throwing out a ban imposed by the city council which ruled that the show of preserved corpses was an offence against human dignity and in bad taste.

A GERMAN doctor conducted Britain’s first public autopsy in more than 170 years last night, ignoring a government warning that he would face criminal penalties.

DONORS who want their bodies to feature in a controversial exhibition of preserved corpses yesterday questioned the show’s creator about their decision.