Women try to check-inn dead relative

Two women aged 41 and 66 have been caught trying to check their dead family member on to an Easyjet flight at Liverpool's John Lennon airport. The ladies wheeled the 91 year old man through check-inn by disguising the fact he had died by using sunglasses and propping up the body.

The women were stopped short of boarding the plane after they had pre-booked assistance in advance for the supposedly disabled relative, when challenged by staff about his lethargic appearance they claimed he was simply asleep.

The airline worker was asked by one of the women to move her father from the taxi and into the wheelchair, when the man's face fell sideways it became apparent that the man wasn't asleep but in fact dead.

The worker notified security officials and the women were stopped while officials removed the family from the queue and took the elderly man to a room where his pulse was checked and pronounced dead.

The ladies who were travelling with young children were arrested and released on bail until the 1st June 2010, police think the women were trying to avoid paying for the body to be repatriated but the death is being investigated though not treated as suspicious.