‘Darkest time of my life’: Funeral director sentenced to 20 years in prison for giving families wrong ashes

Among those who spoke in court was Jasmine Beverley, whose son Sunny was stillborn on May 13, 2022. Investigators found his ashes in a brown paper bag on the floor of the funeral director’s premises more than a year after Bush handed her a little blue coffin and told her Sunny’s ashes were inside.

A funeral director jailed for hoarding bodies and giving families the wrong ashes, a fatal machete attack, a prolific child sex offender and a violent attacker are among the latest cases to have been heard in Yorkshire courts.