A community was forced to pay hundreds of pounds extra to bury their relatives down the road or bury them 45 minutes away for no extra cost.
People in the Islamic community in south Sefton have said they were forced to choose between paying hundreds of pounds to have their relatives buried in Everton Cemetery due to it being in a different metropolitan borough or bury their relatives 45 minutes north in Southport. Chairperson of Sefton Multicultural Centre, Munzi Ali, worked with Sefton Council to introduce a plot closer to South Sefton that would be suitable for Islamic burials.
The 42-year-old, who has lived in Sefton since the age of two, said it "aggravated" him that people were having to make this decision. He told the ECHO : "There were a couple of members in the community who passed away during covid and, obviously, we had to look for burial sites and it turned out that the closest one was Everton or Liverpool where they do it in the Islamic religious way.
