THE baby organ controversy has taken another twist after yet another devastated couple discovered their dead child’s brain was kept without their knowledge – for FIFTEEN years.

Anguished couple Paul Dixon and his partner Melanie Ware, both 31, were just 16-years-old when their baby Jordan died.

But they have now been told their child’s brain was also found at Southampton General Hospital.

Paul said: “It’s terrible to have to go through it all again. We thought we had buried him whole.

“It’s going back to 15 years ago.”

It follows revelations that at least FOUR more mums and dads have learned the brains of their children were stored at Southampton General Hospital without their knowledge.

Paul, who lives in West Moors, Dorset, said he and his partner were told by police officers before Christmas.

He said: “We thought it was just cot death, but to this day we don’t know for sure.

“We felt gutted because it brought everything back up again. We thought we had buried Jordan with everything and we were disgusted.”

The couple, who have since had three daughters, say they have been given no explanation or apology.

Paul said: “It should not have been done. Who can you trust now?”

The couple have now held a service to bury Jordan’s brain with his body. They had to wait two months to bury him 15 years ago.

Another mum, Maria Luke, 58, from Southampton, pictured below, said she could no longer bear to visit the grave of her son Kevin, who died of organ failure in 1995 aged 15, after she discovered the hospital had kept his brain.

She said she contacted the hospital four years after her son died and “cried for days” when she was told her son’s brain was removed in a post-mortem, kept for six weeks and then thrown away.

She said she has not visited his grave for years, adding: “It doesn’t feel like it’s really him there, it feels like a shell.

“His brain is him, it’s his personality, his memories.”

Human tissues and organs are retained in cases where they may be needed for police investigations, but since a change in the law in 2006 relatives must be informed.

As part of an audit police forces nationwide have been ordered to draw up list of postmortem samples kept in storage.

The Daily Echo revealed Hampshire police kept the body parts from 20 people in storage.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the General, said it takes bodies from around the region for post-mortem and is asked by police or the coroner for organs to be retained in ongoing investigations.

A spokesman has told the Daily Echo: “We are asked to hold these specimens (at the request of the police/coroner) until told what they want us to do, for example sensitively dispose or return to families for burial.”