Crooked funeral director Robert Bush to be sentenced for more than 65 offences

Crooked funeral director Robert Bush will be sentenced this week after pleading guilty to 67 offences spanning 12 years and affecting hundreds of victims.Bush, 48, who ran Legacy Independent Funeral Directors, gave grieving families the wrong ashes while their loved ones’ bodies were left at his site for months.Police were contacted by someone with access to the site in March 2024, expressing concerns over “care of the deceased” at the Hull business.When officers searched the premises they found 31 bodies that should have been cremated months earlier, including a stillborn baby that had been there for almost two years.Protest against hate crime legislation takes place outside Scottish ParliamentHeatwave and risk of exceptionally severe fires to return after brief lullThey also found more…

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