Coffee table coffin had body in it, joked pensioner

A PENSIONER who uses a coffin as a coffee table in his lounge was visited by the police after two women saw it at his house.

Nick Fowell, 64, from Gimingham, near Cromer, Norfolk, said the coffin will be for his own use and that his lounge is the safest place to keep it. Mr Fowell said the complaint followed a visit from two voluntary service workers last week who did not take too kindly to his jokes about the coffin.

They reported their find to the police, who said the women claimed they had seen a coffin with flies buzzing around it.