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Rel­a­tives of Raphael Gar­cia are con­sid­er­ing their le­gal op­tions, af­ter they re­alised that at the end of his fu­ner­al ser­vice yes­ter­day, it was not his body in the cas­ket but an­oth­er de­ceased.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Keon Cun­ning­ham said the fam­i­ly on­ly found out the wrong body was at the ser­vice in Curepe when the fi­nal view­ing was be­ing done.

“When we opened the cas­ket to do the of­fi­cial view­ing, it was not my grand­fa­ther. When we did our re­search, we saw that the per­son who was in the cas­ket was a man who died on De­cem­ber 20th. It seems as though no­body ever claimed the body.”