Cambodian authorities have returned the wrong corpse following a man’s death.

The mother of a Nottingham man said she was “traumatised” when she went to identify her son, only to find the wrong body had been flown more than 6,000 miles (9,650km) to the UK from Cambodia.
Maureen Thompson, from Strelley, said the police turned up at her door on 9 May with the news her son Kevin Nightingale had been found dead at his home in the Takeo province.
Arrangements were made for Cambodian firm Evergreen Funeral Services to repatriate 39-year-old Kevin but a month later Miss Thompson and two of her sons went to identify the body and instead found a man in his 70s.
She said: “I would not like it ever to happen to anyone else.”