Hull funeral director who left bodies to rot in mortuary jailed for 20 years

A funeral director in Hull has been jailed for twenty years after pleading guilty to sixty-seven offenses committed over twelve years. Robert Bush, who owned Legacy Independent Funeral Services, admitted to leaving dozens of bodies to decompose in his mortuary and giving grieving families the wrong ashes. The Guardian reports the case affected hundreds of families, with more than eighty loved ones describing the horror of learning what had happened.

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