Scots family forced to cremate Catholic gran after being told family burial plot is ‘full’ due to grave collapse
Catholic mother after a burst pipe flooded their family plot.Elizabeth Briggs repeatedly told her loved ones that she wanted to be buried with her late husband Charles and four-month-old son William at Cockpen Cemetery in Bonnyrigg.The mum-of-five had purchased the plot after losing her baby to cot death in 1970 and buried her 61-year-old husband in 2000.But after passing away on February 5, daughter Tracey Gillan discovered that her father’s casket had only been buried 3ft down - leaving no room for her mum.She was told by Midlothian Council that she would need to purchase a new plot in a different cemetery as there were no graves available.The family have been left ‘unable to eat or sleep’ due to the anguish at going against their