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Brian Yalung

UK Funeral Director Spent £42,000 on Holidays While Bodies Were Left to Rot, Angering Grieving Families

Prosecutors outlined fraud and misconduct allegations involving a Hull funeral home. (Credit: Humberside Police Facebook Page)

Four grieving families were each given the wrong ashes after the operator of a funeral home in Hull admitted dozens of offences involving the mishandling of human remains, fraud and theft, a court has heard.

Tests later established that none of the four urns contained the ashes of the babies they were told had been cremated. Instead, prosecutors said the urns contained the cremated remains of unrelated adults, while one contained the ashes of an animal.

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