Bush Admitted 67 Offences, İncluding 30 Counts of Preventing a Lawful Burial and Theft From 12 Charities

Robert Bush, 48, jailed for 20 years at Hull Crown Court for failing to bury or cremate people and giving families strangers' ashes, issued an open letter of apology that angered victims. Police found 35 bodies and over 100 sets of ashes at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull after a March 2024 tip-off. Jasmine Beverley, whose stillborn son Sunny Beverley-Conlin was found in a brown paper bag at the Hessle Road premises nearly two years after his birth on 13 May 2022, said the letter left her "feeling nothing but anger.

Tristan Essex, whose grandmother Jessie Stockdale was among the bodies, called the letter "absolutely disgusting" and said it seemed AI-generated. Bush admitted 67 offences, including 30 counts of preventing a lawful burial and theft from 12 charities. Prosecutors described his operation as "shambolic and chaotic.