Attempt to Smuggle Corpse on Airline

(Liverpool, England) A 66-year-old woman, Gitta Jarant, and her 41-year-old daughter, Anke Anusic, were arrested earlier today for attempting to smuggle a dead body through screeners at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.


Gitta Jarant and stepdaughter Anke Anusic
Police determined that the body of Kurt Willi Jarant, 91, had been dead for a day. The two women were arrested for failing to notify the coroner.

The women say they did not know that Mr Jarant - who suffered from Alzheimer’s - had died. They say they had taken him - along with three of Anke’s children - to the airport in a taxi ahead of a family trip to Berlin.

They pushed him in his wheelchair to the easyJet check-in desk. When staff quizzed Gitta and Anke about Mr Jarant - who was wearing a hat and sunglasses - they said he was asleep.

But further investigation revealed the former pilot and German soldier, who is known as Willi, was dead. Anke, of Franklin Close, Oldham, said today: “We haven’t done anything wrong but the police said he had been dead for a day. “The suggestion of this is disgusting and completely ludicrous.

“He came in the taxi with us - he was a bit pale but he was moving. He did not talk much because of his condition but we are certain he was not dead when we started our journey.

The women were booked and released.