Ashes ‘dug up’ after another person buried in same cemetery plot, leaving family in disbelief

A grieving family claims its father’s interred ashes were exhumed without approval after a burial bungle at a South Australian cemetery.

Mount Gambier teacher Penne Paltridge said she was bewildered and angry her father’s ashes were “dug up” after another person was mistakenly buried in the same plot.

“My dad’s grave has been desecrated,” an emotional Ms Paltridge said.

Ms Paltridge had to drive 130 kilometres to the small, rural Lucindale Cemetery to pick up her father’s ashes after the error, which she stores…