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British teen killed in a hit-and-run in Spain ‘buried without his heart after Spanish authorities decided to keep it’
['Maeve Gorman']
Olive Press News Spain
A MERSEYSIDE teen was buried without his heart after Spanish authorities told his mother they were keeping the organ for evidence in their criminal investigation – just hours before the funeral.
Harry Begg, 19, was killed in a suspected deliberate hit-and-run in Tenerife in December.
Nicola Gardner, the victim’s mother, was told her boy’s heart was ‘being preserved pending further testing as the investigation progresses, given that it was a criminal death’.
If Harry loved you, he loved you with everything,” Gardner told the Liverpool Echo.
Harry’s family are devastated and confused by the authorities’ decision to keep the teen’s heart.