Two children have been left traumatised after discovering a mobile phone that contained pictures of a laughing man holding a severed head.
The pair, aged 10 and 12, stumbled across the phone in a ditch in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire this weekend.
One image shows an embalmer named as David Amor smirking as he holds the head of a man who is believed to have died after being hit by a train.
The gruesome image is understood to have been taken at a funeral home as preparations were made for the victim’s funeral.
A spokesman for the British Institute of Embalmers told the Daily Mail: "If it was one of our members, they'd be on a disciplinary, and thrown out of the institute.''
The distraught children immediately took the phone to their father, who was also shocked by the images.
The man, who declined to be named, told the Thame Gazette: “The kids screamed and ran out of the room.
“At first I wasn’t sure if it was real, until I started clicking through the rest of them.
“It’s really upset my daughter, she doesn’t want to talk about it or go near the phone, she’s really traumatised.”
Aylesbury Vale Police have launched an investigation into the images.