A box containing human ashes found in a rental property in Christchurch by the new tenant on November 17. Photo / Supplied
A box containing human ashes found in a rental property in Christchurch by the new tenant on November 17. Photo / Supplied
A family has been reunited with their loved one’s ashes after a Christchurch tenant stumbled across them in her garden shed.
Knox, 24, told the Herald she had been in her new Burwood rental for just a week when she found a peculiar-looking box in the garden shed.
“I saw this big blue box, I tried to convince myself it was something else like ready-made plaster or something but when I saw the name on it I knew something wasn’t quite right,” said Knox.
A Christchurch rental tenant found human ashes in her garden shed on Sunday, November 17. Photo / Supplied
The box said it came from the Salisbury Park Crematorium and contained cremated human remains.
“I never would have expected to find human remains in my garden shed, it was just wild,” she said.
The ashes belong to a 77-year-old man who died seven years ago.
“Who knows how long he has been in there,” Knox said.
A box containing human ashes found in a rental property in Christchurch by the new tenant November 17. Photo / Supplied
With the little information she had, Knox immediately started work to track down the family. First, she tried her landlord - to see if the ashes belonged to the previous tenants. They had no idea whose they were, she said.
