A man was arrested for breach of the peace after a disturbance during today's controversial exhumation of Zyon Pauling and his baby daughter Tori.
The man, who has been released, had refused to move off the grave site at the Masterton Cemetery.
Other people gathered at the cemetery yelled abuse as three council contractors prepared the site for the digger.
Mr Pauling and his 27-day-old daughter were killed in 1995 after a car accident in Waipawa. Tori's mother, Maria Williams, survived.
Today's exhumation ends a six-year legal battle by Ms Williams to have her daughter's remains returned to her for cremation.
The battle, which reached the Court of Appeal, started four months after the deaths and stemmed from wording on the headstone.
Mr Pauling's mother, Jacqueline Pauling, gave up the legal battle to stop the exhumation earlier this year.
Man arrested at Masterton exhumation
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