It was in March this year that a funeral home drove the coffin with the dead woman's body to the son who was to say a final goodbye to his mother at his home in northwestern Skåne.
The coffin was then loaded back into the funeral car, but on the way back, the funeral directors stopped to check the coffin and made a strange discovery.
There was no body, but sacks of sand that weighed about as much as the dead one.
Police were called to the scene and at the back of the man's home, an identical coffin was found where the body lay.
"Do not move a body"
The man is now being prosecuted at Helsingborg District Court for breach of the peace.
Whether the man moved the woman from one coffin to another, or replaced the coffins is not entirely clear.
- Regardless of whether he moved the body between the coffins or whether he replaced the coffin, I mean that it is punishable.
You are not allowed to move a body, says Anders Månsson, chamber prosecutor.
Wanted to fulfill the mother's wish
The man admits the course of events but denies the crime.
He has explained that it was about not finding a suitable cemetery to bury his mother in and that he felt stressed about resolving the situation.
He then came up with the idea of gaining time to find a cemetery that would fulfill his mother's wishes.