Funeral director who hoarded bodies and gave out wrong ashes jailed for 20 years
Robert Bush was convicted of hoarding bodies, giving families the wrong ashes and stealing donations from more than 200 victims, prosecutors said.
- On Friday, Robert Bush, a funeral director, was sentenced to 20 years in prison at Hull Crown Court in northeastern England after a five-day hearing where more than 200 victims described the devastating impact of his crimes.
- Bush previously pleaded guilty to 67 charges related to crimes spanning 12 years at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, including improperly retaining corpses and stealing charity donations collected at memorial services.
- Investigators discovered a 'horror scene' at the funeral home with bodies in various stages of decomposition stored in cold storage, while about 50 people learned they had received the wrong ashes after police found urns labeled with their names.
- Jasmine Beverley testified that her stillborn son Sunny's ashes were found in a brown paper bag, while Bush defrauded 172 people of £562,000 through fake funeral plans, compounding trauma across more than 200 victims.
- The case surfaced in March 2024 when a worker at Bush's funeral home told rival firm directors 'out of the blue' that bodies had been at the site 'for years' while Bush was vacationing in Arizona, prompting the police raid.
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Hull funeral director jailed for 20 years after dozens of bodies found unburied
The government has announced it will regulate the funeral industry in England, after a rogue undertaker was jailed for 20 years for leaving dozens of bodies unburied while charging for cremations that never happened.
He gave mourners empty urns and other people's ashes while the bodies rotted in the warehouse - he was sentenced to twenty years.
The images of the bodycam show the arrest of Robert Bush, stopped aboard a plane just landed in Heathrow on his return from a vacation in Arizona. Owner of the Legacy Independent Funeral Directors of Hull, in 2024 it was discovered that he had left dozens of bodies without a dignified burial: the police found 35 bodies in the premises of the enterprise, some of which should have already been cremated. Bush also delivered to several families the …
A British funeral director has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for misleading bereaved families on a large scale. He swapped the ashes of the deceased, sometimes failed to bury bodies, and stole donations from relatives. 48-year-old Robert Bush was the owner of a funeral business in Kingston upon Hull, in northern England. According to prosecutors, he severely violated the trust of grieving families. In total, Bush was convicted of 67 …
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vijesti.meUndertaker Robert Bush, sentenced to 20 years in prison, kept dozens of bodies long after he told relatives they had been cremated. Families talk about the devastating impact it had on their lives.
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