It’s a scene straight out of the classic 80’s comedy Weekend At Bernies (or the sequel), except you need to replace Jonathan Silverman and Andrew McCarthy with Gitta Jarant, an elderly German national living in Oldham, Greater Manchester, and her step-daughter, Anke Anusic. Those are the two women accused of trying to smuggle a corpse, 91-year-old Curt Willi Jarant, onto a plane at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport.
Curt was hilariously wearing sunglasses at the time his condition was discovered, just like Bernie over there. Gitta Jarant and Anke Anusic were under the impression that he was alive, given that he’d just been checked out of the hospital after treatment for pneumonia. Their story is believable, given how much a ticket would cost versus the cost of checking the corpse in as baggage.
“He was alive. He was pale but he wasn’t dead,” Ms Anusic stated. “A dead person you cannot carry to Germany, there are too many people checking and security. How can you bring a dead person to Germany?”
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