London, July 31, 2026 (AFP) - UK funeral director jailed for 20 years for 'dreadful' practices

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2026-07-31

A British funeral director was jailed for 20 years on Friday for "dreadful" conditions at his parlour including bodies stored for months in an "undignified manner" and relatives handed other people's ashes. Robert Bush ran his funeral parlour in Hull in northeastern England for over 12 years, offending on an "industrial scale" and causing "anguish and pain on a scale beyond beyond comprehension", judge Nicholas Hilliard said. The 48-year-old unde......

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