Sisters’ anguish over mother’s burial

Sisters who fell victim to a cemetery conman have spoken of their anguish on discovering he had their mother buried under an access path.

One of the families affected by the deceit of William Henderson, the former superintendent at Mount Vernon cemetery in Edinburgh, are the relatives of Rose Walker. She was buried at the cemetery in 2013 after dying at the age of 86.

However it was only after her funeral that Mrs Walker’s family realised Henderson had issued them with a bogus burial deed, and that their mother had in fact been buried under an access path.

One of her daughters, Dot Fraser, said: “My mum certainly isn’t the only grave in the access path, there’s a number you can see that are dotted right along the path round the priests’ circle … It’s not a natural area within the graveyard.”