Kids find phone with pic of laughing embalmer holding up severed head of train victim

[vuvuzela2010]

Police probe after children find mobile phone with picture of laughing mortuary embalmer holding up a severed head

A gruesome image found on a mobile phone showing an embalmer laughing as he holds aloft a severed head was today at the centre of a police investigation.

The sickening picture, which features a man named as David Amor smirking at the camera, was on a phone found in a ditch in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, by two young children over the weekend.

It is one of three images on the phone that show the decapitated body, believed to have been hit by a train.

The disturbing shot is understood to have been taken as 26-year-old Mr Amor worked in a mortuary to preserve the body of the dead man until his funeral could take place.
Disturbing: David Amor smiles as he holds aloft the dead man's head in an image stored on a mobile phone that was later found by two children, aged 10 and 12

Police yesterday launched an investigation into the shocking images.

Chief Inspector Olly Wright, of Aylesbury Vale police, said: 'The incident is being treated seriously and while we carry out our initial investigation we feel it would be inappropriate to speculate as to the circumstances in which this photo was taken.'

Officers were in the process of seizing the mobile phone so that they could examine the pictures further.

A spokesman added: 'We are looking into this to establish whether any offence has taken place.'


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The phone was found by a brother and sister, aged 12 and 10, who gave it to their father.

He, in an attempt to identify the owner, removed the SIM card and put it in his own computer.

He said: 'It's like when you find a wallet, you look inside to see if there's anything to say who it belongs to.

'However, after finding that, I don't want to get in touch with this guy. It's a total lack of respect for the dead.

'That was probably someone's father, someone's son and someone's brother, it's unbelievable to think they could do that to someone.'

The father-of-two, who asked not to be named, described how his children screamed and ran out of the room when the images appeared on his computer.

Also on the phone were lists of Mr Amor's appointments and an electronic business card for his embalming business.
Idyllic: The Vale of Aylesbury, in Buckinghamshire, close to where pictures of the decapitated head were found

Idyllic: The Vale of Aylesbury, in Buckinghamshire, close to where the phone containing pictures of the decapitated head was found

He advertises his services at £50 pounds for 'straight cases', and £60 pounds for 'PM' cases.

Embalming is the process by which bodies are preserved so they can be displayed at the funeral.

'At first I wasn't sure if it was real, until I started clicking through the rest of them,' said the father.

'It's really upset my daughter, she doesn't want to talk about it or go near the phone, she's really traumatised.'

Mr Amor states on a social networking site that his place of work is Amor Embalming.

He is understood to live with a cross-dresser, David Hill, in Aylesbury.

When questioned at his home, Mr Hill refused to comment about the pictures.

Wearing what looked like a blond wig and accompanied by another person who also looked like a man dressed as a woman, he shouted: 'We don't want to make a comment. No comment. Go away or we are calling the police.'
'It's really upset my daughter, she doesn't want to talk about it or go near the phone, she's really traumatised.'

Neighbours last night described Mr Amor's actions with the severed head as 'vile.'

'Its disgusting,' said one man. 'They live here now and I hope it will be ''lived here'' soon.'

A spokesman for the British Institute of Embalmers, who have no record of Mr Amor, described his behaviour as a 'shocking' and said the relatives of the dead man would be 'appalled'.

Members of the BIE abide by a strict code of ethics that included treating every body with respect, they added.

'If it was one of our members, they'd be on a disciplinary, and thrown out of the institute'' said the spokesman.

'There's no legal requirement to register as an embalmer, and once somebody has done some sort of training they can work as an embalmer.'

Not sure why you would want to pick up someones head and take a picture of yourself with it, was he planning on putting it on Facebook or something? I hope this tasteless fuck's business goes down the pan.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Re: Kids find phone with pic of laughing embalmer holding up severed head of train vi

Uhh... maybe he had a taste for dark/shock humor? Niether of which I'm particularly fond of, but anyway, that dude made a big mess-up in taking that picture. I'm not saying he should be locked up or anything, just that I found the picture to be distasteful. Very distasteful.

I'm just wondering why his phone, with the picture on it, was found in a ditch...

 

[Bikini Miltank]

Re: Kids find phone with pic of laughing embalmer holding up severed head of train vi

While this is evidently a case of poor judgement, anybody working regularly with dead bodies will ultimately become blase about them. It's necessary in order to overcome our deeply ingrained discomfort and revulsion related to bodies. People working in morgues routinely joke about the dark matter of dealing with corpses, in a way they would not do amongst regular people. This is simply an extreme example of that.

And yes, as I said, taking pictures is a dumb thing to do, but I just think we should consider the nature and stresses of the job rather than crying out "Is he even human?" There's a certain hypocrisy, in that people are drawn to stories like this by pure morbid curiosity, but are quick to protest their righteous indignation against the perpetrator.