Digger helps bury 52-stone man in marathon funeral ceremony

A MAN weighing 52-stone was winched into his giant grave yesterday — with the help of a mechanical digger.

Just a solitary “good Samaritan” attended the council-paid funeral service of 29-year-old John Christian Jeffrey, in Taunton, who had no known relatives.

It took cemetery workers more than four hours to lower Jeffrey’s coffin — which was more than twice the size of a typical casket — in to his grave, before the service began.