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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katie Dickinson

‘It makes me feel sick’: Man whose grandmother’s body was kept at bogus funeral home

Jessie Stockdale whose body was found at the Legacy Independent Funeral Directors site months after she was supposed to have been cremated - (Family handout/PA Wire)

The grandson of a woman whose body was discovered uncremated at a fraudulent funeral home in Hull has revealed the profound distress caused by the director's actions, stating he "destroyed every memory I have of her".

Robert Bush, who operated Legacy Independent Funeral Directors, admitted to 30 counts of preventing a lawful burial after 30 bodies, including that of 87-year-old Jessie Stockdale, were found on the premises. Families had been falsely informed their loved ones had been cremated.

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