Dead Weight: Women Try to Check in Corpse on Flight to Berlin

Police in in the Liverpool John Lennon Airport have arrested two women aged 41 and 66 for the crime of trying to sneak the body of a dead relative on a flight to Berlin. They face the relatively low charge of failing to give notification of death.

The women reportedly put the man in a wheelchair with sunglasses and tried to check him in ala Weekend With Bernie.

The women are German nationals who live in Oldham.

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