COMMENT: Allah Ditta cemetery incident is disturbing

12:23pm Thursday 30th August 2012 in News

COMMENT: Allah Ditta cemetery incident is disturbing COMMENT: Allah Ditta cemetery incident is disturbing

Ruhal Hussain’s account of his row about his father’s grave with former mayor Allah Ditta is indeed disturbing.

Mr Hussain says Mr Ditta invoiced him for £400 for the maintenance of the grave at Worcester’s Muslim cemetery.

When Mr Hussain disputed the bill Mr Ditta became angry and threatened to dig up the body and have it moved.

Now this exchange may simply have been a misunderstanding that escalated out of control.

But it has nevertheless raised questions about the way the cemetery and its financial affairs are managed.

Should, for instance, a family that has paid £625 in burial fees be asked, a little over two months later, for a further £400 for maintenance?

Regardless of the financial considerations, there is certainly no justification for haranging in so distasteful a way people whose grief must still have been raw.

The families whose loved ones lie in that cemetery need to know that the voluntary committee running it are acting in their best interests.

We would expect committee officers to conduct a proper inquiry into this incident and make their findings public.

Only full transparency will be enough to put Muslim families and the wider community at ease.

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Comments(8)

brooksider says...
12:49pm Thu 30 Aug 12

No wonder Simon Geraghty is frightened to comment, he has gifted the cemetery to a bunch of extortionists.

Lets see if he is brave enough to take action against Allah Ditta as he has broken the City Council's code of conduct especially
'Citizens must not be violent, abusive or threatening to Councillors or Officers and
must not wilfully harm things owned by the Council, Councillors or Officers.'

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luke4387 says...
2:14pm Thu 30 Aug 12

Geraghty is a waste of space!

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mayall8808 says...
2:33pm Thu 30 Aug 12

luke4387; totally agree with you.

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davidcollier1 says...
7:59pm Thu 30 Aug 12

well well well the racist attitudes of the residents of the faithful city have surfaced like a turd in the canal.

Firstly we are not aware of the full facts of the case and to jump the bandwagon is simply disgraceful

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mr.meldrew says...
8:18pm Thu 30 Aug 12

tasteless.death and money...show some respect.dont matter what race or religion..

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brooksider says...
8:57pm Thu 30 Aug 12

davidcollier1 wrote:
well well well the racist attitudes of the residents of the faithful city have surfaced like a turd in the canal.

Firstly we are not aware of the full facts of the case and to jump the bandwagon is simply disgraceful
What racist attitudes?
In fact only only offensive comment on this page is by yourself.

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thecigarman says...
10:27pm Thu 30 Aug 12

unbeleavable, how people like david collier wants to turn this into a race issue, its not, no matter what happend in the cemetry, it isent a place to act like this to swear and trade insults is inexcusable in such a place, stop bringimg race into it, and i agree with brooksider u are the only one who starts any insults on the pages collier. show some sense and way up the facts.

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murray kelso says...
11:04am Fri 31 Aug 12

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