A trip taken to Jamaica last year by a Brampton, Ont. family to spread the ashes of their late brother took a turn for the worse when their checked luggage, containing the remains, was nowhere to be found upon their arrival.
“It was sad for me to lose him,” Charles Matthews told CTV News Toronto on Monday. “We did everything together. He was like my twin brother.”
Charles’s brother Conroy Matthews died in January 2023.
Charles said his brother’s final wish was that his cremated remains be placed beside his mothers gravesite in Jamaica.
“He requested before he passed away that we take some of his ashes and put them beside our mom,” Matthews said.
In March, the Matthews family flew to Jamaica on an Air Canada flight with Conroy’s ashes checked in a suitcase.
When they got to Jamaica, Matthews said all the suitcases arrived except the one that contained the remains.
“It was very sad, very depressing,” Jean Bennett, Conroy’s sister told CTV…
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