‘Heartless’ boss of funeral home of horrors Robert Bush jailed for 20 years

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A ‘heartless’ undertaker who abandoned dozens of bodies and handed grieving families the ashes of strangers has been jailed for 20 years. Robert Bush, 48, betrayed the trust of bereaved relatives ‘on an almost industrial scale’ at his firm Legacy Independent Funeral Directors. He lived ‘very well’ and enjoyed luxury holidays on the cash paid for the funerals of people whose bodies were left to rot at the home, or whose ashes were left in bags or strewn across desks and floors. Over four harrowing days at Hull Crown Court more than 200 of his victims told their stories – many through tears – of how he had shattered their lives. Four mothers said they will never recover from being t