Twisted undertaker Robert Bush laughed about the lack of regulation in the funeral industry when he was quizzed by police about his cruel crimes, new footage has shown.Humberside officers arrested him after finding 35 bodies stored in his Legacy Funeral business in Hull and asked him who his ‘governing body' is. Bush scoffed that he hadn't been inspected since Covid telling them: “I know! We are a highly unregulated industry.”“When you join the National Association of Funeral Directors you have an inspection to put a certificate on your wall, but they just come and check. But they are also checking if you’ve got cushions on your sofa and how many leaflets you have,” he told them, appearing relaxed and sipping coffee during his police interviews.“They have been round and it’s only covid times they kind of rescinded that, until then, they came around and did spot inspections and things. But if you didn’t come up to scratch, there wasn’t a penalty, you were just not in their association any more.”‌His comment will add fuel to the victims’ calls for urgent regulations to be brought in. Families whose loved ones were left at the funeral home for up to two years and those given fake ashes and some none at all, have been calling for action as they tell Bush’s sentencing hearing how they've suffered PTSD, nightmares and suicidal thoughts.Bush, 48, has already pleaded guilty to 67 offences after police removed 35 bodies and a quantity of ashes from Legacy Independent Funeral Directors, in Hull. He is due to be sentenced on Friday. He was arrested at Heathrow on a plane in March 2024 and released on bail. He was then rearrested in July 2024, but still did not seem to grasp the horror of his crimes and told police: “I’m no Che Guevara!”He answered the door in his dressing gown with his two Bichon dogs barking at his feet. "Rob, we’ve come to arrest you," a female officer tells him and he replies: "Right." As he’s read his rights, Bush puts his head in his hands and tells the two officers: “I don’t understand. I’m not like an international…you know I’ve been arrested off a plane by gunpoint. I’ve been taken out. It’s like I’m Che Guevara or something. I’m not that complicated."‌He told police who arrived at his home: “I’ve said so many times ‘let me help you’. I will unravel whatever it is. I will come down and talk to you. Four months have gone by...I know I’m not good at accounting and my handwriting is bad and all that. I’m sure there are times when you’ve looked at things and thought ‘I don’t’ know what that means'. But not once have I had a question since I’ve been released. I don’t understand it.”He’s told by the officer how their questions need to come in an interview and he counters: “I was expecting to have interview after interview. It feels vindictive the way this has been done...I’ve been compliant from the word go. I’ve come back early on my own accord. I’ve been taken off a plane at gunpoint. Massive Met Officers with their guns. We were coming home. I told you we were coming home. You knew all our travel plans and everything.”Sitting on his stairs, with his head in his hands, he appears frustrated and adds: “I’ve been compliant from the off. I’ve been here all this f**king time.”‌His reaction was a far cry from his first police interviews when he seemed relaxed and chatty with officers. He appeared the most bothered about the impact it will have on his own family, rather than the hundreds of people affected by his crimes. He is keen to point out the crimes are all down to him and did not involve his wife and daughter.“The whole thing has been a crescendo of poor choices, situations, debt. It’s all on my shoulders, I am solely responsible for the whole event. Which obviously has implications of my future and how my family’s future will be," he says. When asked how many bodies were in your storage facility, he admits: “Quite a lot. A good 30."There's a portion of them that are new, so haven’t done the funeral yet, ummm, there are a couple, a few more that we have only recently done. And then the others I was, well the plan was to get them cremated as soon as I could afford to do so. “‌When asked why he had not cremated the bodies, he told them he blamed his “debts” and “cash flow problems”. The officer asks: ‘So in your own mind you would catch up eventually?’ He then laughs strangely before adding: “They weren’t meant to stay with me forever. The oldest one was the paperwork I needed, I didn't have, otherwise I would have…I chased it but it was too far down the line.“I should have contacted bereavement services and told them what had happened but then I would have revealed everything and I’d be sat here talking to you. I didn’t want them to be with me. I wanted to make things right. I know that this has hurt people and I am, I am so sorry for the hurt caused. But I never wanted this to be like this. It wasn’t my plan, it was poor choices.“This is just a problem I was hoping to resolve without causing the hurt I know it has caused. I wanted to continue my business. You know I wanted to continue helping people. I always enjoyed being a funeral director…It was a real privilege but this has been as I am sure you can imagine, distress it caused (to) myself, I caused myself…”‌During his interviews he moaned about his high energy bills and how body bags were ‘surprisingly expensive things”. He told how he’d taken to making his own coffins after being shown how to by a joiner. But he was still buying superbikes and going on luxury holidays. When he was arrested he just returned from Arizona where he’d gone to watch motorcycling races.He shared his passion for luxurious fast super bikes, which he owned several of, with his daughter and four full leathers with helmets were stored in his Legacy premises. About his spending habits, he said: “I wouldn’t say we had an exorbitant lifestyle, we tried to still live but generally the biggest problem was having branches I couldn’t afford to have but couldn’t give away."Then I had electric and gas, which was as much as the rent. Then Hull city council was coming at me and then the other crematoriums did the same when they got wind of that. So everywhere I go I have to pay in advance.”‌Stroking his beard he replied: “I never intended for any of this…I suppose, opportunities that were maybe poor choices that maybe I’d taken them to try to fire-fight one problem over another. But mostly it’s always been financial problems. Debt has led to this. A continuous onslaught of financial crisis.”Sipping from a plastic coffee cup and picking his nails he was asked how many bodies the facility could hold. He replied: “I think about 45 trays. I know we say spaces but they are not all either fit for purpose…”The ‘opportunities’ for Bush to save money came when funerals were held in his own chapel and they would keep the coffin themselves - telling families the cremation would happen at a later date. He explained: “It presented an opportunity that I didn’t have to maybe do it immediately and if I held onto them for a little bit, it backfilled another one, and to catch up but I didn’t catch up.”And he bemoaned the struggles of the funeral industry: “Since January it has been very quiet for everybody but before that in a good month you would be looking at 18 to 20 (funerals) a month, since we’ve had Hessle Road. Before that 1 or 2, was getting pretty dire before then. The last couple of months been more like six or seven. The crematoriums have been quiet too…”‌He agreed his bank accounts were “messy” and added: “I just pay the biggest wolf really. I think I ignored problems for too long and hoped that I was going to come up with a magic solution. Either more work would turn up or maybe….I tried a couple of times to do these IVA things but they just want more money off you. They kind of also need structured accounts which I didn’t have. Some of the other mechanisms people might turn to, I wasn’t able to.”When he was quizzed again in July his solicitor read out a statement on his behalf. “I have never actually prevented the lawful and decent burial of any deceased person whether intentionally or recklessly."