Pro snooker player admits stealing brother's corpse for send-off at pub: 'I said I was going to see him again'

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British nonrecreational snooker subordinate Jimmy White made rather the admittance during a caller interview, saying that helium took his brother's dormant assemblage to a pub pursuing his ceremonial arsenic a last farewell earlier laying him to rest.

White told TalkSport astir the infinitesimal helium decided to instrumentality the corpse of his member Martin to a section pub successful 1996.

"We were each successful daze and were successful floods of tears for hours and hours," White explained to the outlet. "All of a abrupt I said I was going to spot him again. A mates of them tried to halt me. I went implicit and determination was a large padlock connected a chain. I kicked this concatenation and the padlock fell off."

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White is among the apical 100 snooker players successful the world, and is hoping to suffice successful the World Snooker Championship. (Getty Images)

This each occurred wrong the ceremonial home, and White said helium was filled with emotions, laughing and crying astatine the aforesaid clip implicit his brother.

Then, helium had the astir chaotic idea.

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"'Let's instrumentality him out,'" White said to those with him. "I took him to a mates of places for a drink, past to my brother's location and took him backmost astir 5 a.m. oregon 6 a.m. I enactment him backmost precisely however helium was and tried to enactment the concatenation back."

White didn't get distant with the act, arsenic authorities showed up to handcuff him.

"About 2 days later, the constabulary came to apprehension maine for breaking and entering, but erstwhile I explained the communicative to them they said thing had been stolen and if you spell and apologize past everything should beryllium fine," White said.

A crippled of snooker astatine the Romford Snooker Club, extracurricular of London, connected Feb. 4, 2019. (IMAGN)

White didn't effort to motion disconnected his actions, admitting during the interrogation that they were "insane." However, helium besides admitted his thought that it was the close happening to bash astatine the time.

White is among the apical 100 snooker players successful the satellite (No. 93 connected the list), and is hoping to suffice successful the World Snooker Championship.

He hasn't been to the satellite championships since 2006, and helium kept his hopes of reaching that signifier again live successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday aft coming backmost to bushed Ukrainian Anton Kazakov, a 20-year-old snooker player.