Funeral home cut off corpse's legs
A South Carolina judge has ordered the closure of a funeral home where a worker cut the legs off a body so it would fit in a casket.
Judge Deborah Durden on Tuesday upheld last month's decision by the state Funeral Board to revoke the licence of Cave Funeral Home and owner Michael Cave.
Cave admitted in an administrative court that his Allendale funeral home cut off the legs of 6ft 7ins James Hines five years ago and did not tell his family.
Cave said he did not want grieving relatives to suffer more.
The dead man's widow said finding out what had happened was like having her husband die for a second time.
A former employee fired from the funeral home notified the family of the incident last year.