Body snatchers ‘sent hate mail to Halls’

THE family of a woman whose body was stolen from a graveyard have received hate mail from animal rights extremists claiming to be in possession of her remains, it emerged yesterday.

Staffordshire Police confirmed that the letters had been sent to the Hall family, members of which breed guinea pigs for medical research at Darley Oaks Farm in Newchurch, near Burton upon Trent, Staffs.

The force revealed last week that the body of 82-year-old Gladys Hammond the mother-in-law of Chris Hall had been taken from her burial plot in nearby Yoxall, Staffordshire.