Antisocial behaviour and drug abuse in churchyard not enough to permit exhumation, Chancellor rules
THE unpleasantness of a poorly maintained churchyard that was being used by youths who gathered there to indulge in antisocial behaviour and drug abuse was not a good enough reason to depart from the presumption of the permanence of Christian burial so as to allow the exhumation of remains buried there, the Consistory Court of the diocese of Liverpool has ruled
01 May 2026