THE mother of Rachel Whitear wept today as she watched the remains of her daughter being exhumed nearly four years after she died.
The 21-year-old heroin addict's coffin was removed from her grave and loaded into a new casket before it was wheeled out of the Chucrh of St Peter in Withington, before being driven away in a hearse to Hereford County Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
The exhumation is part of a fresh inquiry into the death of Miss Whitear, who was originally thought to have suffered a fatal overdose at her bedsit in Exmouth, Devon, in May 2000.
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