Histopathology technical officer Clare Loudon of Sydney holds a preserved heart in a western Sydney hospital March 9, 2001. A report has found that up to 25,000 body parts including hundreds of baby hearts are held in hospitals, universities and museums and may have been taken without permission from relatives.

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Laboratory technician, Niel Lindsay arrives at Southwark Crown Court April 3, to hear the jury's verdict on charges of stealing human body parts from the Royal College of Surgeons where he worked. Lindsay was found guilty of theft and given a six month suspended jail sentence. [His co-defendant sculptor Anthony-Noel Kelly,] who used the bodyparts to make exact copy sculptures, was sentenced to nine months in prison.

Laboratory technician, Niel Lindsay arrives at Southwark Crown Court April 3, to hear the jury's verdict on charges of stealing human body parts from the Royal College of Surgeons where he worked. Lindsay was found guilty of theft and given a six month suspended jail sentence. His co-defendant sculptor Anthony-Noel Kelly, who used the bodyparts to make exact copy sculptures, was sentenced to nine months in prison.

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Sculptor Anthony-Noel Kelly leaves Southwark Crown Court, April 2, awaiting the jury's verdict on charges against him of stealing human body parts. Kelly and his co-defendant Niel Lindsay were found guilty, April 3, of the theft of anatomical specimens from the Royal College of Surgeons, which Kelly then used to make exact copy sculptures. Kelly was sentenced to nine months in prison, and Lindsay received six months suspended sentence.

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