A grieving woman has blasted Glasgow city council’s graveyard policy after finding out her relatives’ headstone had been moved.

June Meagher, 59 was horrified to discover her family headstone had been laid flat when she visited their grave at Linn Cemetery.

The lair is the final resting place of her parents Alex and Mary Lennie, and her brother Paul.

June, from the south side, has complained to the council after staff told her the review of headstones was so urgent that lair owners wer unable to be told.

The local authority said the move was part of the review of headstones following the death of Ciaran Williamson last year.

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However, June insists relatives should have been informed of the policy and has disputed the council’s claims they were unable to tell lair owners.

She also insists the headstone on her family grave was not unsafe, having recently been replaced following the death of her brother in 2013.

Inspection reports reveal June’s relatives grave was inspected in May this year, 12 months after the Craigton Cemetery tragedy.

She is now calling for the council to return the headstone to the way it was.

She said: “How could they say they have been such a rush they couldn’t notify people? It was a year afterwards that they did this. Come on.

“It’s nonsense, I don’t accept it.

“They are leaving themselves wide open for people to complain.

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“We never saw any notices when we visited. It’s just so disrespectful.”

A council spokeswoman said: “It is incorrect to say we had a year to inform the family. That is when we started inspections, not when this particular stone was found to be unsafe. It is clearly not possible to know which headstones would fail before they were inspected.

“We began a programme of inspections and tests, covering tens of thousands of stones in cemeteries across the city, last year. Headstones that failed inspection and posed a risk to the public were urgently made safe.

“We appreciate the obvious distress a failed headstone will cause; however the council is not responsible for the maintenance of headstones in its cemeteries – maintaining a stone in a safe condition lies with the family or lair holder.”