Battle lines have been drawn in a family row over a Tayside dad’s final resting place.
A decision on what will happen to Malcolm Fryer’s body will now be decided at Forfar Sheriff Court.
Mr Fryer died at the age of 52 in July 2013 in front of his son Rhyan when he went to open his Monifieth cycle shop, MGR Cycles.
He was laid to rest in a plot that his parents Leslie, 87, and Fiona, 82, bought at Shanwell Cemetery in Carnoustie.
The elderly Monifieth couple intend that their remains will eventually be buried alongside their son in the two remaining places.
Mr Fryer’s widow Genevieve, 49, of Broughty Ferry, said she was “incapable of playing much part” in the funeral arrangements but now wants to be buried alongside her late husband when she dies.
She bought a lair next to the one where her husband is buried and asked Mr Fryer’s parents for an exchange which the couple have refused.
Mrs Fryer and her son Rhyan, 17, have now launched a civil court bid in Forfar to order the exchange or see Mr Fryer’s body exhumed and re-buried in the adjacent lair.
Born in Singapore, Mr Fryer, who has two other children from a previous relationship, married his wife in 1996.
He spent most of his life in Monifieth, attending Carnoustie High School.
The case has echoes of last year’s court battle over the final resting place of tragic Black Watch soldier Mark Connolly, 24, who will be buried in Forfar on Friday.
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