Police searched his premises and found 31 bodies in a cold storage area that should have been cremated months earlier
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenAgence France-PressePublished: 11:38pm, 27 Jul 2026A British funeral director faced prison on Monday over a scandal that saw bodies left “stored on racks” and uncremated while relatives were handed other people’s ashes, sparking calls for better regulation of the industry.
An ex-employee described Robert Bush’s funeral parlour as a “horror scene”, prosecutor Chris Paxton said at the start of a five-day sentencing hearing.
Police who searched his premises after a tip-off found 31 bodies in a cold storage area that should have been cremated months earlier, including a stillborn baby that had been there for almost two years.
“There were bodies stored on the racks on both sides of the room,” the lawyer said at Hull Crown Court in northeast England.
“The vast majority were uncovered and in varying states of decomposition,” he added.
