‘A worker did it’ says coffin con company

A FIRM of undertakers accused of swapping expensive coffins for cheap ones before cremation has blamed an ex-worker.

Spanish police arrested 14 people at the family-run El Salvador group over a con they believe raked in millions of pounds.

Nearly €900,000 in cash was found during a search.

But the firm, which covers the northern region of Castile and Leon, said an ex-worker was to blame and was convicted of extortion after blackmailing bosses.

It added: “All [our] crematoriums have rooms where relatives can see the coffins before they enter the cremation area.”

Police are probing thousands of cases from 1995 to 2015 and fear even wreaths were swiped and resold.