A CEMETERY conman sold grieving families fresh plots that were actually unmarked graves in a string of sickening burial scams in Edinburgh. William Henderson, 45, also pocketed thousands after ...

An investigation found evidence that burial plots were routinely mis-sold at the Mount Vernon cemetery since the mid-1990s, BBC Scotland has been told. Police said a 45-year-old former cemetery ...

Offenders have fixed more than 200 gravestones at an Edinburgh cemetery as part of a pioneering scheme. The pilot project at Liberton Brae Cemetery has saved the council up to £70,000, and is being ...

A FORMER worker at the Mount Vernon cemetery in Edinburgh has been arrested and charged following allegations of a burial fraud racket. The Catholic Church archdiocese in which the burial ground is ...

A former superintendent of an Edinburgh cemetery has been jailed for 16 months for illegally selling burial plots to bereaved families. William Henderson, 46, earlier admitted carrying out the crime ...

A rundown historic building in a cemetery in a Scottish city is to be renovated and used as an events and exhibition space. The watchtower was built to deter graverobbing to satisfy city medical ...