A MOTHER whose son was a victim of the Alder Hey body parts scandal was today waiting to hear if his tissue had been sold to a drugs company while he was still alive.

Wendy Bury, of Union Road, Oswaldtwistle, has suffered since learning last year that her son Carl's organs were kept by the Liverpool Children's Hospital -- and is waiting for the results of the inquiry into the practices, due to be published tomorrow.

Carl died in 1983, just after his first birthday after an operation to correct a hole in his heart.

Wendy had always believed she had laid her son to rest, untouched, at Immanuel Church in Oswaldtwistle.

After finding out in August that her son was an Alder Hey victim -- her suspicions were first aroused when she remembered seeing her son's lifeless corpse in the mortuary with a big scar from ear to ear -- a second funeral was arranged and took place on what would have been Carl's 18th birthday.

Speaking today, Wendy said: "I will be going down to Liverpool tomorrow morning to see the report.

"It will be publicly announced at 4pm and that is when we can talk about it."

Wendy, who called for a public inquiry last year, added: "I have no idea what the report will say.

"After I have seen it, I may feel there is a need for a public inquiry. I just don't know.

"I thought I had learnt all I could about what happened to Carl but then everything about passing the tissues and organs on to pharmaceutical companies erupted last week.

"I don't know if Carl's tissue or organs were handed over to them as well.

"It just seems to keep going on."

Health Secretary Alan Milburn has already described the report as 'grotesque.'

It emerged last week that health firms had made a 'donation' of £5 for every thymus gland tissue sample received.

The glands were removed during operations while the children were still alive.