An MP has has called for an end to the "depraved" practice of human remains being sold in auction houses and on social media.
Labour’s Bell Ribeiro-Addy said she had been told of human remains frequently auctioned “disguised as modified items or replicas”.
She told MPs that this included a “foetal skeleton posed under a glass dome, a human thigh bone turned into a cane, a human jawbone necklace and the varnished skull of a six-year-old”.
Ribeiro-Addy, who is the MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill in London, said a loophole in the law allowed for the sales and asked the deputy prime minister to commit the government to end the practice.