Man charged with grave interference in Barnsley after woman's burial plot 'disturbed'

A man has been charged after a grave was partially dug up in a Barnsley cemetery.

Wayne Joselyn, 43, faces accusations of interfering with a grave and outraging public decency.

Police were called to Carlton Cemetery on Monday, 2 May, after reports from a passer-by that a grave had been "disturbed".

Officers exhumed the body of a woman as part of their investigations. They found that nothing had been taken. She was later reburied.

The grave was occupied by two members of the same family.

Joselyn, formerly of Barnsley but now in HMP Doncaster, has been remanded in custody and will appear before Barnsley Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, 16 November.

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