Haven't they suffered enough?

Haven't they suffered enough? Now MH17 victim's wife is forced to cancel his credit cards because they were being USED by thieving pro-Russian rebels

Looters are compounding the anguish of grieving relatives in the MH17 massacre by using bank cards and mobile phones stolen from the dead.

The shocking development emerged yesterday as emergency workers trying to reclaim missing body parts at the crash site were chased away by heavily-armed pro-Russian rebels accused of downing the Malaysia Airlines flight.

The Boeing 777 was destroyed by a missile killing all 298 people on board while flying over the separatist-held Donetsk region a week ago.

Since then, the site has been one of astonishing chaos, with bodies looted, evidence sabotaged and valuable aluminium metal plane parts being stolen and sold for scrap.

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Yesterday, it emerged that the widow of one of the ten Britons killed had been forced to cancel her husband’s credit cards to stop their fraudulent use.

Reine Dalziel, the wife of British helicopter pilot Cameron, a 43-year-old father-of-two, was ‘stunned’ by the shameful abuse of her dead husband’s belongings. Her brother Shane Hattingh said: ‘People are abusing it in the Ukraine. They have no respect for each other, look what they’re doing. It made me angry beyond words.’

Mr Dalziel, who had just moved to Malaysia with his family, was killed while on his way home after taking a training course. His wife was said to be ‘destroyed’ following his death. Mr Hattingh said her whole body was ‘sore from crying’.

He added: ‘The little we do know is that Cameron was in business class, and that particular part of the plane was found reasonably intact.

‘So we can only hope that things will work out for us and that we can get Cameron home and start the grieving process.’

Meanwhile, relatives have told of their horror after their loved ones’ phones were answered by strangers with ‘eastern European-sounding voices’. New footage also shows rebels stealing golden wedding rings and other valuables from the scene.

Yesterday, flights continued to carry victims’ bodies from the government-controlled Ukrainian city of Kharkiv to the Netherlands for identification.

But forensic experts say just 200 corpses and an unspecified number of body parts have been sent to them by rebels from the crash site in the eastern farming village of Grabovo, which is unsecured and now largely deserted.

There are fears that vital evidence has been lost as the site is sabotaged and plane debris – including the jet’s mangled cockpit – moved around and stolen to be sold as scrap metal.

Remaining body parts have also been left to rot and destroyed by wild animals in the summer heat.Yesterday, the head of Ukraine’s emergency services, Serhiy Bochkovskiy, said officers were forced away from the site by the rebels who confiscated their equipment.

Jan Tuinder, a forensics expert leading the Dutch investigation, said what was happening at the scene was ‘criminal.’

He added: ‘There are still some lunatics, it’s very hard for us to get to the bodies.’ Australia has sent a team of 50 policemen to London ready to fly out to try to recover remaining body parts

Rebels have promised secure access to the site for investigators but fighting was yesterday getting worse in the area.

Meanwhile, a decree allegedly signed by rebel commander Igor Strelkov was issued stating that valuables taken from bodies must be handed in to contribute to the ‘defence fund’ of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.

Jordan Withers, 22, the nephew of British crash victim Glenn Thomas, 49, said: ‘It’s a hard one to swallow — that my uncle and everyone else’s loved ones are there and they are being degraded and treated inhumanely.’

Ukrainian government adviser Anton Gerashchenko yesterday said looters were stealing valuable aluminium from the site.

Andrei Lysenko, of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, said: ‘The cynicism of these gangsters has no limits. According to our information, apart from picking up valuable personal belongings of the passengers, terrorists are using credit cards of the victims.’

Last night Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation following widespread criticism of his government’s inability to secure the crash site.