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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