The funeral of a former British paratrooper whose body was found in a morgue 11 years after he was supposed to have been buried will take place tomorrow.
It was originally thought Christopher Alder was buried in Hull's Northern Cemetery, but his body was discovered in a hospital mortuary in November.
It now appears a Hull pensioner called Grace Kamara was buried in Mr Alder's place in 2000.
Mr Alder, 37, choked to death while handcuffed and lying on the floor of a police station in Hull, in the early hours of April 1 1998.
He had been hurt in a scuffle outside a nightclub and was arrested after becoming aggressive in hospital.
His body was originally released to his sister Janet Alder ahead of his funeral in November 2000, although it is now being released to his sons, who are 26 and 25 and live in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.
In a statement, they said: "Our father's funeral will take place in Hull on Thursday.
"We would like this to be a quiet and private funeral and ask if the press would very kindly leave us alone in peace to grieve."
Details of where the funeral will take place have not been disclosed.
Police have been called in to investigate the apparent mortuary blunder, which was only discovered because Mrs Kamara's friends and family asked to see the body and Mr Alder's remains were found in its place in the mortuary.
Janet Alder has spent the last 13 years campaigning about various aspects of her brother's death.
She took her case to the court in Strasbourg, alleging that there had been a violation of the substantive aspects of Article 3, which prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and Article 14, which prohibits discrimination, of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The British government apologised to the Alder family after admitting breaching the European Convention on Human Rights over his death.
Ten years ago, a coroner's jury returned a verdict that Mr Alder was unlawfully killed and in 2002 five Humberside Police officers went on trial accused of manslaughter and misconduct in public office but they were cleared of all charges on the orders of the judge.
Four years later, an Independent Police Complaints Commission report said four of the officers present in the custody suite when the black former paratrooper died were guilty of the "most serious neglect of duty".
Humberside Police Chief Constable Tim Hollis apologised at that time "for our failure to treat Christopher with sufficient compassion and to the desired standard that night" but the Police Federation said the officers involved "strongly disputed" the report's conclusions.
Mr Alder's sister brought a civil action against the Crown Prosecution Service claiming she would have been treated differently if she had been white, but she lost her legal challenge.
