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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Katie Dickinson and Dave Higgens

Funeral director spent £42,000 on Center Parcs and Italy holidays while stealing charity donations from grieving families

A funeral director who spent more than £42,000 on holidays to Center Parcs and Arizona while he was defrauding scores of customers has been jailed for 20 years.

Robert Bush breached the trust of his customers at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull “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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