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Dubbed the 'Grim Eater', the fake mourner was spotted several times a week at different funerals in Wellington's eastern suburbs by staff of the Harbor City Funeral Home.
Company director Danny Langstraat said they had the culprit's picture taken and distributed to it to various branches in an attempt to stop his freeloading.
"He was showing up to funeral after funeral and without a doubt he didn’t know the deceased,” Langstraat told The Dominion Post.
"He had a backpack with some Tupperware containers so when people weren't looking, he was stocking up."
