Grieving families described two funeral directors as “vile” and “evil” as they were 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.
