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Antisocial behaviour and drug abuse in churchyard not enough to permit exhumation, Chancellor rules

Antisocial behaviour and drug abuse in churchyard not enough to permit exhumation, Chancellor rules

Thursday, April 30, 2026
THE unpleasantness of a poorly maintained churchyard that was being used by youths who gathered there to indulge in antisocial behaviour and drug abuse was not a good enough reason to depart from the presumption of the permanence of Christian buri...