Footage shows inside of Robert Bush's Legacy funeral home
Robert Bush, the director of Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, is facing sentencing after admitting to 67 offenses including failing to bury or cremate bodies properly. Police discovered a scene of total disorder, including 35 bodies and over 100 sets of ashes, during a raid in 2024.
Why it matters
The case exposes a massive failure in funeral industry regulation and has caused significant trauma to the families of the deceased.
Share Save Add as preferred on Google Kevin Shoesmith BBC News Watch: Police officers search Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull This story contains details some might find distressing
Boxes of tissues sit on a coffee table in a front room at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors. There are opulent chairs, upholstered in pale yellow; a black and white print of a trawler that nods to Hull's fishing heritage.
It feels like an attempt to put customers at ease, painting the picture of a caring, community-led business.
But on the other side of a partition wall - an area Legacy's director Robert Bush ordered an employee to keep hidden from others in the industry - is a labyrinth of dimly-lit corridors.
A police officer shines her torch into messy side rooms, strewn with rubbish and in total disorder.
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