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OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time.Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy noticeA Coventry Imam hit out at conditions of a city cemetery which have left bereaved families unable to reach the graves of loved ones.Imam Shaykh Nabeel, of Coventry Al Madinah Mosque, told CoventryLive Lentons Lane cemetery has been a “mud bath” for months.And in some cases it has been unsafe for families to navigate the water logged site, leaving them to stand on the roadside while the burials takes place.It has also led to funeral cermonies being cancelled at the last minute because of what the Imam claims are flooded graves.Imam Shaykh Nabeel is at Lentons Lane at least three times a week due to rising numbers of deaths in Coventry Muslim community.Coventry City Council said that what the community have described as flooded graves, are sumps in the burial section which, once emptied, can be used for burial if suitable.They are designed to collect water, which is then pumped out, to prevent the flooding of graves.Flooding at Lentons Lane cemeterySpeaking to CoventryLive this week, Imam Shaykh Nabeel said: “The main issue we have with the Lenton Lane graveyard is the water, water within the graves, normally when we go to do burials, eight times out of ten, there water in the graves.”It can be from 1ft to 4 5ft of water which is almost the full depth of the grave, we got the pumps in there to try and get out the water, but we had a few instances where the body has had to be taken back as they can do the burial.”For Muslim burials, the situation holds religious implications as they aim to have bodies to be buried within 24 hours of a person death.The religious leader said the situation had caused such distress he carried out a survey of his local community to ask what their thoughts were on the site; 95% of them came back to say changes were needed.Imam Shaykh Nabeel added: “Even more upsetting is there no paths in the graveyard, when we going for a burial you walking in a mud bath, when someone wants to visit a grave.”You can walk up in mud that is as deep as your ankles, it is really disturbing; 1)Going for the burial and seeing the water in there and 2) knowing your loved one is going into the grave and it will be full of water again. It not a pleasant sight.”He claimed that it even led to an incident before Christmas where a coffin became exposed after a grave began to fill up with water after a burial.Bereaved families have said that conditions caused by flooding has made graves at Lentons Lane cemetery unreachable.He said: “Water had risen from below and it was a freshly dug grave on a burial that had taken place, and with the water it had risen, and it actually exposed the grave and with it the coffin itself was rising up and became exposed.”We had to get people in to get it put down and get it to settle it.”The issue is not only the Muslim side it is spread out across the whole site, there is water logging everywhere.”.