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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rich Booth and Katie Dickinson

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

A funeral director who hoarded bodies for months and gave bereaved families the wrong ashes has been jailed for 20 years.

For 12 years, Robert Bush breached the trust of his customers at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors “on an almost industrial scale” and “in a myriad of ways”, from mixing up ashes to fleecing vulnerable pensioners with fake funeral plans.

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