Cemetery’s larger fee for wider graves criticized as ‘fat tax’

By Adam Dutton

Town hall chiefs have been blasted over plans to charge grieving families a 'fat tax' to bury their overweight loved ones in XL graves.

People living in Wolverhampton could face a 20 percent price increase for larger plots to accommodate super-sized coffins.

Danescourt Cemetery in Tettenhall could charge families £2,700 for a 6ft wide burial plot - a price hike of £450 over a standard 5ft grave.

Wolverhampton is one of the fattest cities in the UK, with over two-thirds of the population classed as overweight or obese.

Wolverhampton City Council contacted 25 funeral directors about the proposed price hike and claimed they received just one objection.

Funeral director Ross Hickton, who runs Hickton Family Funeral Directors, branded the plan a "fat tax".

He fumed: “F