Mortician pair jailed for letting bodies rot

TWO funeral directors who stored bodies in unrefrigerated conditions have been jailed for four years.

- BY ANAHITA HOSSEIN-POUR

TWO funeral directors who stored bodies in unrefrigerated conditions have been jailed for four years.

Richard Elkin, 49, and Hayley Bell, 42, who ran Elkin and Bell Funerals in Gosport, Hampshire, were described as evil by victims' loved ones.

Portsmouth crown court heard that the bodies of two elderly men were found by agents who had been tasked with repossessing the premises.