Family have dead grandmother's brain sent to them

A family is suing a funeral home claiming their grandmother’s brain was sent home in a bag of personal effects given to them after her death.

They said they found the brain the day after the funeral when a foul odour came from a bag they received from DeVargas Funeral Home and Crematory of the Espanola Valley in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Funeral home owner Johnny DeVargas said the fault does not lie with his business, and that another company in Utah – where the woman died in a car crash - was responsible.