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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Katie Dickinson

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

Funeral director Robert Bush arrives at Hull Crown Court for sentencing (Annabel Lee-Ellis/PA) - (PA Wire)

‘Callous’ funeral director Robert Bush stared impassively ahead as tearful families told a court how he abandoned their loved ones’ bodies for months and “gave them a stranger’s ashes with a smile on his face”.

As a five-day sentencing hearing got under way on Monday, a judge heard how the horrors at Hull-based Legacy Independent Funeral Directors included bodies left to rot on racks and an unborn baby in a paper bag.

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