{"id":82624,"date":"2025-10-15T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82624\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:32:09","slug":"former-hull-funeral-director-admits-35-fraud-charges-after-investigation-into-remains-found-at-his-premises-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82624\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Hull funeral director admits 35 fraud charges after investigation into remains found at his premises | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former funeral director Robert Bush has pleaded guilty to 35 counts of fraud by false representation after an investigation into human remains.<\/p>\n

The 47-year-old also admitted one charge of fraudulent trading in relation to funeral plans at Hull Crown Court.<\/p>\n

But he pleaded not guilty to 30 counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body and one charge of theft from charities.<\/p>\n

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He will face trial on those charges at Sheffield Crown Court next year.<\/p>\n

Humberside Police launched an investigation into the funeral home after a report of “concern for care of the deceased” in March last year.<\/p>\n

A month after the investigation started, the force said it had received more than 2,000 calls on a dedicated phone line from families concerned about their loved ones’ ashes.<\/p>\n

Bush, who is on bail, was charged in April, after what officers said was a “complex, protracted and highly sensitive 10-month investigation” into the firm’s three sites in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

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Most of the fraud by false representation charges said he dishonestly made false representations to bereaved families saying he would: properly care for the remains of the deceased in accordance with the normal expected practices of a competent funeral director; arrange for the cremation of those remains to take place immediately or soon after the conclusion of the funeral service; and that the ashes presented to the customer were the remains of the deceased person after cremation.<\/p>\n

He admitted four “foetus allegations” which stated he presented ashes to a customer falsely saying that they were “the remains of their unborn”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former funeral director Robert Bush has pleaded guilty to 35 counts of fraud by false representation after an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-82624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}