Overview

• Arwen Greenlaw-Meek revealed her family was given the wrong remains of her brother Fiongal after the June 12 crash, intensifying their grief.
• Fiongal’s mother, Amanda Donaghey, provided a DNA sample in India but follow-up tests in the UK showed the returned coffin did not contain her son’s remains.
• The family fears that some victims may have been cremated under incorrect identities, leaving uncertainty over recovering the correct remains.
• The British Foreign Office has assigned dedicated caseworkers to support bereaved families and clarified that formal body identification falls to Indian authorities.
• Reports of mislabelled and co-mingled remains have prompted parallel UK-India forensic inquiries into procedural lapses at the Ahmedabad crash site and Civil Hospital.