Grieving Ayr Cemetery families stand united against council after being 'put through hell'

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Grieving families of Ayr Cemetery have stood united against South Ayrshire Council after being put through hell. Defiant relatives have called on council chiefs to hang their heads in shame after Ayrshire Live told how all 126 graves have "water issues".In an emotional graveside show of solidarity — families came together after months of prolonged agony over a water ingress crisis.Ten relatives met with Ayrshire Live to lift the lid on their horror ordeal as they vowed to take legal action over the debacle — which will see them having to exhume loved ones from what was supposed to be their final resting place.Just weeks after they were told the heartbreaking news that their loved ones will have to be exhumed — furious families have called on cemetery bosses to apologise and take the blame.They have revealed how they first found out that they would face having to re-bury loved ones via Ayrshire Live and the Ayrshire Post - with “copy and pasted” letters arriving days apart.Suzann McKenzie, 32, who buried her son’s dad James McGarrie, 32, in 2019 said: “I’m trying to think of the right words to say, there are no words.“I can only think of negative words to describe the council, in all honesty.“What has happened here is criminal, it has been a form of human torture.”Christine McGarrie, 38, James McGarrie’s sister, has been left disgusted by the handling of the crisis, she said: “They [the council] have said this is something they have never dealt with before so if they have never dealt with it before then how do we know they are dealing with it in the right way?”Christine who also spoke on behalf of her mum Margaret said: “The way my mum sees it is, that's how life started and how life ended, everybody in the ground back