"Sudden Death" at Rugby Match

An English rugby fan dressed his dead father-in-law and tried to smuggle the body back home from Scotland on a tour bus, London police said.  The bizarre incident happened after the two men went to see a rugby league final in Edinburgh.  By the next morning, the father-in-law had died in their hotel room in Glasgow.

"For reasons known only to himself, he decided to dress the man - I believe in a shirt and tie and a suit and also a baseball cap - and he got him onto the bus," a Glasgow police spokesperson said.  "Apparently, he pulled the cap down over the man's eyes and the rest of the coach were unaware that the man was dead."  Once on the bus, the man phoned his wife to tell her that her 77-year-old father had died; prompting police in England to stop the bus en route and remove the body.  The son-in-law was not charged (from Mortuary Management, July/August, 2000).