'54 years' for bone snatcher.Byline: By ANTON ANTONOWICZ THE boss of a body snatching body snatching, the stealing of corpses from graves and morgues. Before cadavers were legally available for dissection and study by medical students, traffic in stolen bodies was profitable. gang that stole the bones of broadcaster Alistair Cooke Noun 1. Alistair Cooke - United States journalist (born in England in 1908) Alfred Alistair Cooke, Cooke England - a division of the United Kingdom pleaded guilty yesterday in a deal that could jail him for more than 50 years. Michael Mastromarino, 44, and his gang made at least pounds 2.3million selling bones from corpses for use in 10,000 transplant ops around the world - about 40 of them in Britain. Radio 4 Letter From America presenter Cooke, 95, who died of cancer in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in 2004, was among bodies they raided. Mastromarino told a judge he forged records, including times of death and ages, and switched blood and tissue samples. He admitted a string of charges including corruption, body stealing, larceny and forgery. Prosecutors said under the deal he is helping investigate firms that bought the stolen tissue. He faces between 18 and 54 years and a pounds 2.97million fine when sentenced in May. One other man has also pleaded guilty and two more face trial. CAPTION(S): RAIDED: Cooke |
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