Preventing lawful burial

The Guardian reports that Robert Bush, funeral director at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, has admitted giving families the wrong ashes, lying to them, stealing from them and stealing from charities. He pleaded guilty at Hull Crown Court to 30 counts of preventing a lawful and decent burial, and one of theft from twelve charities, including the Salvation Army and Macmillan Cancer Support, after 30 bodies and a quantity of ashes were found at the funeral home in 2024.

He had previously pleaded guilty to dozens of counts of fraud at a hearing in October and had been charged with 67 offences in total. He was granted bail pending a pre-sentence report, but Hilliard J said that “everybody accepts a custodial sentence is inevitable in this case”. Continue reading →