The mother of a gay man who was killed in a crash crash in Air India in June flew to the crash scene so that she could take his body to the house and bury him near her husband. British authorities then said the wrong ruins were returned.
Keep up with the latest LGBTQ+News and politics. Sign up for our supporters email newsletter.
Fiongarh and Jamie Ray Greenlow Meek were in India celebrating their wedding anniversary, but died on a home trip when the plane crashed, killing 242 people. Amanda Donagey, Fiongar’s mother, said The era She traveled to India and provided blood samples to identify her son through DNA matches.
Three days after she first went to the crash scene in Ahmedabad, authorities said that a positive match was found for her. She returned to his home in England after being told that she was his son’s body. The plan was to bury him next to Jamie Ray.
Related: Gay couple returning to England among those killed in Air India crash crash
“I’m back in Gatwick, London, with assurance that Fiongar was included in the cas,” she said.
However, when the British coroner tested the DNA again, the results were not consistent.
“We don’t know what the poor guy is doing to that cas. It’s scary what happened,” Donagey told the paper.
The deaths of Fiongal and Jamie Ray attracted widespread media attention due to the social media video Fiongal posted from the airport just before the flight. The couple ran Wellness FoundryIt was founded in 2018. The couple got married in 2022.
Fiongarh is not the only victim of the crash in Air India where the ruins were apparently misidentified at the crash site.
Maiten Patel, whose parents died in the crash, took home a co-wrote that he thought had the ruins of his mother, Shobana Patel. BBC It was later confirmed that “other bodies” were also inside the co.
India said the BBC had all the artefacts processed with “major professionalism” after the crash.
Source: Advocate.com – www.advocate.com
