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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Anahita Hossein-Pour

Funeral directors jailed after decomposing body found in mortuary

A room inside Elkin and Bell Funerals - (Hampshire Police)

Two funeral directors have been jailed for four years over storing bodies in unrefrigerated conditions, while one body was found decomposed in their mortuary room, having been left there for 36 days.

Richard Elkin, 49, and Hayley Bell, 42, who ran Elkin and Bell Funerals in Gosport, Hampshire, were convicted of public nuisance, preventing the decent burial of a body and fraud offences following a trial at Portsmouth Crown Court last year.

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