Christopher Alder's sister speaks of pain one year after dead body mix up discovery

“casmarelda; I think you are mistaken to use the "what if it was your relative" argument in this case. When anyone dies they are conveyed by an undertaker to their premises in ALMOST all cases and are viewed in a chapel of rest by relations and others. There is not the same set of circumstances that occurred in the case in question. One body was held due to not being claimed and the other for legal reasons and although there is no excuse for the disgraceful mistake it was not one that would ever occur in normal circumstances. Anyone reading your post would surely have sympathy with regard to your brother, I have as I was treated as "drunk" after having a stroke.”

“ON AND ON AND ON AND ON....... This is such a bore, it was just a matter of time before the story was resurrected AGAIN !!!!

A bit of advice for Janet Alder..... LET IT GO or it will consume and destroy you. The story is also dangerously close to destroying the HDM readers with boredom !!!”

“I admit I have no knowledge of Christopher Alder other than that I have gained from reading anything related to him after death and within that a very potted version of the person he was.
I know he was an ex paratrooper and therefore served his country and although that would not stop him being a 'drunken thug' which is being suggested, it could explain why...if he was. That is not an excuse that is a reason, a reason backed up by vast evidence collated on ex-troops returning to civilian life and their behaviour thereafter. I wonder what reason the police have for the way this young man was treated and the way he died?

My brother was involved in a very serious motorbike accident and the police treated him appallingly, assuming he was drunk - he was not. He was admitted to Hull Royal and a Sister on the ward he was on made him walk up and down a corridor suggesting he was drunk - he was not. Within 24 hours he was diagnosed with severe brain damage and placed on the appropriate ward. He never recovered from the brain damage.

So Christopher Alders behaviour at the HRI and toward the staff there after a head injury is not to me surprising. That he was treated has a abusive drunk is also, to me, not surprising. My family have personal and heartbreaking experience of this...and I wonder how many, mainly young men, are dismissed to be drunks - when in fact they have brain injuries and I can only hope the procedures at HRI have changed over the last decade or so.

If it was your mum, dad, sister, brother, child who had been 'left' in a mortuary for 11 years would you really just accept that and move on? After choosing the coffin with love and arranging the music they loved and perhaps listening to a service about them, telling stories of their life and love and then visiting their grave regularly and placing flowers, cards, windmills for children/ babies etc and believing you were visiting your loved one resting there - would you honestly just accept that and move on? or would you demand answers and people to be accountable?

It may have already happened to one of your loved ones for all you know and when I visit my brothers grave the thought that it is not him that is resting there but some stranger...and that I am placing flowers and crying and spending time there remembering my brother who is resting with my grandparents and mum in the family grave... and he is not there is for me a terrible thought. Because yes, a stranger was laid to rest in the Alder family grave and Christopher Alders nieces ashes were scattered on that family grave and all was disturbed when the strangers body was exhumed. Believe me I would be asking for answers and asking for 'heads to roll' left, right and centre and I would never, ever shut up until I was satisfied that every last person involved in this had been held accountable.”

“BevRoadNorth, the alternative to the "deliberate switching of the bodies" theory is the theory that the mortuary workers couldn't tell the difference between a 30 year old man and a 77 year old woman which is even more unlikely.

Unless Hull Royal is employing blind morticians I would have to go with the deliberate switching hypothesis.”

“What a ludicrous premise. Someone deliberately switched the bodies? Its now entering the realm of conspiracy theory. Who are these 'they' people that are supposedly lurking in the shadows,whose sole purpose in existence is to target the Alders. Given the endless saga this guys arrest set in motion, if anything the authorities would want him buried respectfully and lawfully-as quickly as possible.”

“Did the undertakers who couldnt tell the difference between a young guy like Christopher and a 77 year old woman ever get named and shamed?.
Janet is right to keep bringing her brothers death and the way things turned out to our attention, otherwise people have short memories and it gives those who did wrong the chance to get away with it. Maybe the funeral directors didnt do it on purpose, but to make a "mistake" like these jokers did still requires answers.
If it was a genuine "mistake", we should still be very concerned, because how many "mistakes" had they made before Christopher?. Some of you nasties out there or your family might have used the same funeral directors in the past, so you may have said your farewell goodbyes to a total stranger instead of a loved one..That would be ironic wouldn't it. Just think how you would feel and show a bit of empathy for his sister.”

“WhoMeNever. You knew him personally then?.”

“#bewildered1

I care a great deal how my taxes are spent, but I am just sick to the back teeth of the whole Alder story, and that his sister just keeps pushing her opinions in the press and that this sad cack of a rag keeps publishing it.

Remember this - If he wasn't a drunken thug, he would possible still be here (though some one else may have finished him off or he would almost certainly have been inside).

I know my Mum said don't speak ill of the dead, but Christopher Alder wasn't a pleasant person and while he didn't deserve to die the way he did, society and the gene pool is a much better place.”

“It was a series of very unfortunate events. There will have been no police cover up, but it seems to me that all this "fighting for justice" is just a euphemism for refusing to accept any other version of events that dont fit in with the perceived conspiracy, and the hefty compensation cheque of course.”

“This woman is an attention seeker more than a truth seeker. Losing a family member is obviously upsetting but there is no mystery in how this man died. He got drunk,got into a fight,hit his head and thereafter became threatening and abusive to medical staff,after which he was treated[wrongly it transpired] simply as an abusive drunk. The mix up with the two bodies was a disgrace and should not have occurred but to say the bodies were switched deliberately is the sort of ludicrous publicity seeking rubbish that has been seen before over this sad,but not mysterious death.”