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Disgraced funeral director jailed over ‘dreadful’ treatment of bodies and ashes

Robert Bush, 48, breached the trust of grieving families ‘on an almost industrial scale’

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The families traumatised by ‘evil’ funeral director Robert Bush: ‘My uncle was left in a body bag for 6 months’

Four grieving parents were given the wrong ashes of their stillborn babies, with one foetus later found in a brown paper bag

The Independent UK

Disgraced funeral director Robert Bush to be sentenced in ‘unprecedented’ case

He will be sentenced for 67 offences spanning 12 years and affecting hundreds of victims at his business in Hull.

Evening Standard

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Funeral director ‘ripped off’ vulnerable pensioners with fake funeral plans

A court has heard Robert Bush defrauded 226 people by charging them for funeral plans he was not authorised to set up, and keeping the money.

Evening Standard

Shamed funeral director accepts he is ‘hated and despised’ pariah, court told

Robert Bush’s barrister said his client has apologised to the relatives of the dead he mistreated in a systematic way at his Hull firm.

Evening Standard

Funeral director who admitted hoarding bodies is ‘sorry’, lawyers tell judge

The court heard that Robert Bush could face up to 25 years in prison.

Evening Standard

Crooked funeral director Robert Bush should face 20-25 years in jail, court told

The 48-year-old spent more than £42,000 on holidays while he was defrauding scores of customers.

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Funeral director Robert Bush spent £42,000 on holidays while defrauding clients

Hull Crown Court was told on Wednesday about some of Bush’s personal spending.

Evening Standard

Funeral director who hoarded bodies pocketed families’ charity cash, court told

Robert Bush, who has admitted a range of offences, appeared in court on Wednesday for the third day of his sentencing hearing.

Evening Standard

Woman sobs as she faces funeral director who kept her baby’s body in a paper bag

Jasmine Beverley told Robert Bush that ‘I trusted you with the most precious person in my life’.

Evening Standard

Woman says horrors at Robert Bush’s funeral parlour made her think of Auschwitz

Bush, 48, is to be sentenced for 67 offences spanning 12 years and affecting hundreds of victims.

Evening Standard

Crooked funeral director ‘gave victims strangers’ ashes with smile on his face’

A court heard the horrors at Hull-based Legacy Independent Funeral Directors included bodies left to rot on racks and an unborn baby in a paper bag.

Evening Standard

Crooked funeral director Robert Bush to be sentenced for more than 65 offences

Robert Bush, who ran Legacy Independent Funeral Directors, gave grieving families the wrong ashes while their loved ones’ bodies were left at his site

Evening Standard

Funeral director ‘will pay for what he’s done’, says mother of stillborn child

Robert Bush pleaded guilty to 30 counts of preventing a lawful burial on Thursday at Hull Crown Court.

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The hundreds of victims of crooked funeral director Robert Bush

Thirty-one families believed that their loved one had been cremated, when in fact they remained on site within the Legacy premises on Hessle Road

Evening Standard

Funeral director who kept bodies admits 30 counts of preventing a lawful burial

Police found 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes when they raided Legacy Independent Funeral Directors’ in Hull in March 2024.

Evening Standard

Funeral director admits 35 fraud charges over remains including four foetuses

Robert Bush admitted 35 counts of false representation and one of fraudulent trading in relation to funeral plans.

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Funeral director appears in court charged over human remains found at premises

Robert Bush, who is accused of preventing lawful burials, ran three funeral homes in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire

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Daily Mirror

Jeremy Kyle guest jailed for drug dealing 9 years after appearance on axed show

A former Jeremy Kyle guest has been sentenced at Hull Crown Court for drug offences after she was searched and officers found 14 wraps of class A drugs in her jacket

Daily Mirror

Shoppers saw man 'throw screaming woman into van in Asda car park before driving off'

Shaun Chapman, 41, was handed a four-month prison sentence for affray after picking up his partner and throwing her in the back of his van at an Asda car park in Kingston upon Hull

Manchester Evening News

Man told his girlfriend 'I will bite your face off' as he bit her cheek and punched her in horrific B&B incident

She was left 'black and blue and bruised everywhere'

The Independent UK

Woman stabbed husband in heart during argument while cooking, court told

Teresa Hanson is on trial at Hull Crown Court, accused of murdering Paul Hanson three days after Christmas last year.

Daily Record

Soldier strangled partner in booze-fuelled attack four days after leaving army

McCauley Saville, who had an "unhealthy relationship with alcohol", punched and slapped the woman in her flat above a pub.

Daily Mirror

Woman jumps out window to escape drunk man who began strangling her when she refused sex

Jonas Ilgunas, who described himself as 10 out of 10 drunk when he attacked his partner at their home in front of their three-year-old child, has been jailed for 14 months

Daily Mirror

Neighbour jailed after breaking man's spine, ribs and fingers in brutal attack

Julian Adcock, 51, has been jailed after an attack with "gratuitous, wanton violence" on a neighbour in Hull which left the victim with 11 fractured ribs, two broken fingers and fractured vertebrae in his spine

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