POLICE were using power tools to dig up a cemetery yesterday to try to unravel a bizarre grave-robbing mystery.
Officers were excavating a grave dating back to the 1980s after two spades were seen beside a disturbed burial plot.
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Rumours spread they were left by thieves looking for the jewellery of a woman buried there.
Other speculation is that guns had been buried in the plot.
A vicar is comforting family members of the person whose grave it is in Carlton, South Yorks.
Police said: “The reason for the disturbance at the site remains unclear.”
The area now appears to be a major crime scene with forensics officers using tools to dig up the grave and a road running through the cemetery.
A tent was erected over both sites last week and a third tent has now been added with around a dozen cops working at the site.
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One onlooker said: “It is clearly far more serious than just criminal damage as was first said by the police.
“They have been at the site for a week now and there were a huge number of officers there yesterday.
“This family group is clearly linked to whichever grave is at the centre of this – they looked really upset.”
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