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Legacy funeral home boss Robert Bush jailed for 20 years (opens the original)
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A funeral director who failed to bury or cremate people and gave bereaved relatives the ashes of strangers has been jailed for 20 years. Some 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes were found by police raiding Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull in March 2024. Robert Bush admitted 67 offences, including denying 30 people a decent and proper burial, theft from 12 charities, and fraudulent trading over a period of almost 12 years. Sentencing him at Hull Crown Court, Judge Mr Justice Hi
Victims of Legacy boss Robert Bush 'unable to get funeral plan refunds' (opens the original)
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Some victims of disgraced undertaker Robert Bush have not been refunded for fake funeral plans he sold to them, a court has heard. The 48-year-old defrauded 172 people over 11 years to the tune of £562,000, Hull Crown Court was told. He previously admitted 67 offences in relation to his business, Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, including failing to bury and cremate people, theft from 12 charities, fraudulent trading in funeral plans, and fraud. On the fourth day of his sentencing h
Robert Bush: Legacy funeral boss left 'bodies to decompose' at dirty site (opens the original)
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This story contains details some might find distressing. Bodies found at a funeral home in varying states of decomposition had been "simply abandoned" and left "for nature to take its course", a court has heard. Hull Crown Court has heard graphic descriptions of how 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes were found at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in March 2024. Former undertaker Robert Bush has admitted 67 offences, including failing to bury and cremate people. His sentencing hearing
Robert Bush: Legacy funeral boss 'left baby's remains on floor for two years' (opens the original)
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This story contains details some might find distressing. The remains of a stillborn baby were left on the floor of a funeral home for almost two years and his grieving parents given the wrong ashes, a court has heard. Former undertaker Robert Bush admitted 67 offences, including failing to bury and cremate people at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull. Jasmine Beverley told Hull Crown Court that learning her baby Sunny-Beverley Conlin was discovered in a brown paper bag on the floor of
Robert Bush: Legacy funeral boss 'breached trust on industrial scale' (opens the original)
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A funeral director who failed to bury people and gave out wrong ashes has breached the trust of bereaved families "on an almost industrial scale", a court has heard. Some 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes were found by police raiding Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull in March 2024. Owner Robert Bush previously admitted 67 offences, including 30 counts of preventing a lawful and decent burial, and theft from 12 charities. At the start of his five-day sentencing hearing on Monda
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