Grieving mum was told baby's ashes were animal remains
A baby is a baby."She has now joined growing calls for regulation of the funeral industry."There is regulation with doctors, nurses, dentists... anyone with a duty of care but none applied to him [Bush]," said Ness. "I definitely think there needs to be regulation."I am never going to know what happened to my baby.
- ▪A baby is a baby."She has now joined growing calls for regulation of the funeral industry."There is regulation with doctors, nurses, dentists... anyone with a duty of care but none applied to him [Bush]," said Ness.
- ▪"I definitely think there needs to be regulation."I am never going to know what happened to my baby.
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Grieving mum was told baby's ashes were animal remainsImage caption, Lucy Ness says police told her an urn given to her by funeral director Robert Bush contained animal's remainsByLinsey Smith and Kevin Shoesmith, East Yorkshire and LincolnshirePublished6 minutes agoA woman who suffered a miscarriage says she was told by police ashes returned to her by funeral director Robert Bush were "animal remains".The BBC understands police were unable to verify the origin of the ashes, but believed they may not be human.Lucy Ness, 28, told the BBC: "Police visited to tell me that the ashes that he had given me were animal remains."Bush, 48, is being sentenced at Hull Crown Court for 67 offences, including denying 30 people a decent and proper burial and fraud charges relating to presenting families…
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