Christchurch funeral director sacked after baby’s ashes returned in a cardboard box

The baby's cremation was also delayed three days without notice.

Victims who lost babies tearfully recall how they were given wrong ashes by Robert Bush.

Robert Bush told the couple their baby’s ashes were inside a blue coffin before police recovered the child’s remains in a brown paper bag on the funeral home floor nearly two years later

In the UK, a woman whose unborn baby's body was found in a paper bag on the floor of funeral director Robert Bush's business sobbed as she told him: "I trusted you with the most precious person in my life."

The mother of an unborn baby whose remains were left on the floor of a funeral parlour for nearly two years addressed a funeral director in court to tell him how she had trusted him "with the most precious and important person in her life."

Jasmine Beverley told Robert Bush that ‘I trusted you with the most precious person in my life’.

Jasmine Beverley told Robert Bush that ‘I trusted you with the most precious person in my life’.

A court heard that Robert Bush breached the trust placed in him by grieving families 'on an almost industrial scale'

Robert Bush pleads guilty to preventing a lawful burial after police find remains of 30 people in Hull mortuary

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Gasps were heard at the trial of Robert Bush, a funeral director guilty of defrauding and deceiving grieving families (Picture: AFP/Getty) The remains of a stillborn baby were left in an envelope on the cold room floor of a funeral home for almost two years. Just one of the shocking stories emerging in Robert Bush’s se

Robert Bush is on trial at Hull Crown Court after bodies were discovered in varying states of decomposition at his Legacy funeral directors, which was described as a 'horror scene'

The daughter of an elderly man left in a cardboard coffin for 10 months says it feels like ‘he was just forgotten’

Funeral director Robert Bush is being sentenced at Hull Crown Court for more than 65 offences which took place over 12 years with hundreds of victims and their grieving families impacted