Funeral director who left people unburied breached families' trust 'on industrial scale', court hears
He said his mother Muriel Winning died from cancer in July 2023 and he was given ashes by Bush, which he placed on his windowsill. "Bush took advantage of us when we were at our most vulnerable. "There are no words to fully capture the disgust I feel.
- ▪He said his mother Muriel Winning died from cancer in July 2023 and he was given ashes by Bush, which he placed on his windowsill.
- ▪"Bush took advantage of us when we were at our most vulnerable.
- ▪"There are no words to fully capture the disgust I feel.
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- ▪ Hull funeral director broke families’ trust on ‘almost industrial scale’, court hears — The Guardian — World
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Funeral director breached families' trust 'on industrial scale'Image source, Humberside PoliceImage caption, A five-day sentencing hearing has begun to hear details of the "horror scene" at Robert Bush's funeral parlour in HullByPritti Mistry and Linsey Smith, East Yorkshire and LincolnshirePublished27 July 2026, 16:04 BSTUpdated 9 minutes agoA funeral director who failed to bury people and gave out wrong ashes has breached the trust of bereaved families "on an almost industrial scale", a court has heard.Some 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes were found by police raiding Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull in March 2024.
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