Lucy Thornton
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- Sep 5, 2026
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Gran, 63 hugged grandson and flew to a Swiss clinic before giving her dying wish (opens the original)
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With her family by her side at the Swiss clinic where she was about to end her life, Gaynor Griffiths told her loved ones: "Please carry on this fight for me." The "one in a million" 63-year-old flew to the Pegasos clinic in April as she sought to avoid the torture of motor neurone disease. With husband Gary, 64, and their children Ami and Alex by her side, Gaynor told them: "Try and get them to change their minds. We can try and make a difference." Gaynor's had travelled to Switzerland days bef
Inside the Legacy funeral home of horrors where bodies were abandoned (opens the original)
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Shocking pictures from inside the Legacy funeral home of horrors in Hull show how disgraced director Robert Bush treated the deceased – and their grieving families – with utter contempt. Bush, 48, is to be sentenced for 67 offences spanning 12 years and affecting hundreds of victims. Hull Crown Court heard how he kept 31 bodies at his funeral home while falsely telling their families they had been cremated and giving them the ashes of a stranger. The court heard that he breached the trust place
Mums ask 'where are our babies?' after funeral director gave them animal remains (opens the original)
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Heartbroken mums who lost babies before 24 weeks have spoken of their anguish after discovering disgraced funeral director Robert Bush gave them animal ashes, stranger's remains or, in some cases, never cremated their babies at all. The grieving women have now united in a campaign to change the law after Bush was sentenced this week, saying parents whose babies die before 24 weeks are being failed by the justice system. Several told how they still do not know what happened to their babies' remai
Baby in a bag among bodies found at funeral home 'horror scene' (opens the original)
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A funeral directors was branded a "horror scene" following the discovery of a "large number of bodies" on the premises. One sergeant was left utterly "shocked" after finding a paper bag at Legacy in Hull, only to open it and discover a foetus inside. Prosecuting barrister Chris Paxton KC revealed that the sergeant initially believed the bag contained a baby bird, only realising it held a human foetus upon spotting a hospital ID band around the baby's wrist bearing the name 'Baby of Jasmine Bever
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