out after that it was a replica MDF coffin that just shattered when it was dropped,” she said.

“Imagine that happening to your loved one. It is not private, 400 to 500 people were able to see him laid there,” added the South West Denton woman, who decided to speak about the ordeal after almost four years of fighting for justice.

She said her devastated family arranged for a second burial for her husband – whom she described as a “gentle giant” — two days later with another funeral director.

Despite the botched first send-off, Swales said funeral director Clark Pearson has refused to accept blame and never apologized for the incident.

In August, the family reluctantly accepted a settlement of £136,500 – about $170,000 — with the funeral directors, but theyin his right kidney and then it was discovered that he also had leukemia.

His brother Frankie donated his bone marrow, which helped improve Gavin’s condition before it deteriorated when he caught pneumonia.

Months after undergoing a second kidney transplant, he died, crushing the family.

“Gavin has left a massive gap in my life, my kids’ lives. My husband was known as the gentle giant all his life. He was always there to help people,” she said.

“If I had one wish in the world it would be to bring him back. He idolized me, his children and grandchildren. He was a great man who has been robbed of his life, and I have been robbed of my time with him,” the grandmother of six added.

She said she has been haunted ever