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Anke Anusic and her step-mother Gitta Jarant. (BBC News)
Anke Anusic and her step-mother Gitta Jarant. (BBC News)
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Two women have been arrested at a British airport after they reportedly put their dead relative in a wheelchair, stuck some sunglasses on him and tried to smuggle his corpse onto a flight.

Police said the women, Gitta Jarant and her step-daughter Anke Anusic, were detained at Liverpool's John Lennon airport "on suspicion of failing to give notification of death" of Ms Jarant's 91-year-old husband Curt.

The BBC and other British media reported that the women placed Mr Jarant into a wheelchair and covered his face with sunglasses in a bid to get him aboard a flight to Berlin.

"If he was dead, we would (have) called an ambulance," Ms Anusic told BBC News.

"He was pale but he wasn't dead."

The women, aged 41 and 66, were detained on Saturday and had been released on bail, police said.

They had not been charged and police said inquiries were continuing.

 

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