Monday 1 August 2022 07:24 PM Daughter who gave father illegal Pagan-style burial in woodland avoids jail trends now
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A daughter who carried out her father's wishes by giving him an illegal Pagan-style burial in woodland has been spared jail.
Eirys Brett, 31, carried out the secret countryside burial with her partner Mark Watson, 46, but broke the law as she failed to legally register her father Donald's death.
Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard that Mr Brett had requested to be buried in woodland near his farmhouse home, in a medieval non-Christian style.
His daughter and partner had carried out his wishes in a 'sense of love and loyalty', exhuming his body in a hessian cotton blanket with twine wrapped in a cross pattern in a 'medieval burial' pattern.
Mr Brett was last seen alive in June 2019 but his body was not found until more than two years later. Mr Brett was believed to be 78 or recently turned 79 when he died.
Eirys and Mark were arrested and said that Mr Brett had died from natural causes- they also told officers where they had buried him.
Eirys Brett, 31, pictured, carried out the secret countryside burial along with her partner Mark Watson, 46, but broke the law as she failed to legally register her father Donald's death
Officers discovered that a number of items were buried with the body including artistic supplies, poems and flowers.
Prosecutor Tom Scapens said that Mr Brett's cause of death was a lung condition but that he had also suffered from prostate cancer.
Mr Scapens said: 'Donald Brett was revealed to be a
