Over a month after the Air India crash shocked the world, the families of victims have been sent the wrong bodies of passengers.
This error is causing further distress for the families involved, with some bodies being wrongly identified before being flown back to the º£½ÇÊÓƵ.
In one such case, the family was forced to cancel funeral plans when it emerged that the body inside the coffin was that of an unknown passenger, the reports.
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The "commingled" remnants of another victim were also placed in the same casket.
At the time of writing, two incidents of mistaken identity have taken place when Inner West London coroner Dr Fiona Wilcox sought to verify the repatriated Britons' identities.
They matched their DNA with samples provided by the families involved, only to discover the errors.
This has sparked further concern that other bodies may have been wrongly identified.
Aviation lawyer James Healy-Pratt, who represents many of the British families, said: I've been sitting down in the homes of these lovely British families over the last month, and the first thing they want is their loved ones back...
"But some of them have got the wrong remains and they are clearly distraught over this.
"It has been going on for a couple of weeks (and) I think these families deserve an explanation."
In a conversation with the , he added: "Family X have no-one to bury because it was the wrong person in their casket. And if isn't their relative, the question is, who is it in that coffin?
"Presumably it's another passenger and their relatives have been given the wrong remains. The coroner also has a problem because she has an unidentified person in her jurisdiction."
Of the 261 people who died in the ill-fated Air India crash, 52 were Britons.
Sir Keir Starmer is expected to address the situation with Indian leader Narendra Modi visits º£½ÇÊÓƵ next week.
