Son loses bid to stop burial of his parents
A MAN who failed to bury his parents who died over 20 years ago has lost his bid for a Supreme Court appeal to stop council bosses doing it for him.
Melvyn Marcel’s mum Hilda died in 1987 aged 68, and dad Eugenois passed away in 1994 aged 91.
He kept their remains at a property in Edinburgh for several years.
He was understood to be planning to build a refrigerated unit at his home, where he wanted to keep them until he could take them to the Middle East for burial in the West Bank.
At the court of session in February judge Lord Mulholland gave the city council the authority to bury them. Yesterday the court refused Mr Marcel’s bid to appeal at the Supreme Court in London.