Chorley son took mum’s dead body on bus (From Chorley Citizen)

Chorley son took mum’s dead body on bus

11:39am Thursday 19th January 2012 in Chorley By Sam Chadderton, Reporter

A SON took his mum’s dead body on a bus journey to Chorley after she died during a day out.

The 52-year-old man was stopped in Friday Street, close to Chorley Interchange bus station, after a security guard got suspicious.

Police said the man had spent the day in Lancaster with his 88-year-old mum, but she died on the way home.

The son waited at Preston Bus Station with his mum’s body in a wheelchair for the bus to Chorley. He got off the Stagecoach 125 service with his mum’s body in a wheelchair around 8.30pm on Monday.

A security guard asked him if his mother needed an ambulance and, when the man walked off, the guard chased after him and contacted police.

Soon afterwards he was stopped by officers and paramedics were called.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, and police said the death was not being treated as suspicious.

A spokesman for Lancashire Police said: “Our CCTV picked it up.

We became aware of a man pushing a lady through the street in Chorley. The ambulance was called and sadly this woman was pronounced dead.

“It was investigated, but was deemed to be non-suspicious. We spoke to a number of people at the time. We were there for several hours.

“It is very tragic. This man has lost his mother and was struggling to know how to deal with it.”

The death has been passed to the Chorley Coroner’s Office for a post-mortem examination to take place to try and establish a cause of death. An inquest has not yet been opened.

Stagecoach were unavailable to comment.