{"id":202075,"date":"2025-10-15T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202075\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:31:08","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\/uk\/202075\/","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":202076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-202075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}