The government has announced it will regulate the funeral industry in England, after a rogue undertaker was jailed for 20 years for leaving dozens of bodies unburied while charging for cremations that never happened.
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The government has announced it will regulate the funeral industry in England, after a rogue undertaker was jailed for 20 years for leaving dozens of bodies unburied while charging for cremations that never happened.
Robert Bush, who ran Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, had admitted 67 offences of preventing lawful burials and fraud.
The judge said he’d caused anguish and pain on a scale beyond comprehension
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Police found 31 bodies in a cold storage area, including a stillborn baby that had been there for almost two years.
