London: Police departments in Britain retained at least 492 human body parts, including brains, hearts and limbs, even after investigations were over, without informing victims' families, an official probe has found.
The Association of the Chief Police Officers said that the body parts were from murder investigations or cases involving other suspicious deaths that date back as far as the 1960s, the Guardian reported.
Police said that there was a legal requirement for them to retain human body tissue samples after post-mortem examination in murder cases.
The audit did not include samples from the current criminal investigations.
The Association of the Chief Police Officers said that the body parts were from murder investigations or cases involving other suspicious deaths that date back as far as the 1960s, the Guardian reported.
Police said that there was a legal requirement for them to retain human body tissue samples after post-mortem examination in murder cases.
The audit did not include samples from the current criminal investigations.
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