Legacy owner in court to face 63 charges

MAN APPEARS BEFORE JUDGE IN FUNERAL DIRECTORS INVESTIGATION

- By PETER CRAIG

THE owner of Hull's Legacy Independent Funeral Directors appeared in court yesterday to face more than 60 charges, which include preventing lawful and decent burial and theft from charities.

Robert Bush, 47, formerly of Kirk Ella, but now of Otley, near Leeds, faced District Judge Daniel Curtis at Hull Magistrates' Court charged with a combined total of 63 offences.

He was taken into and out of the court through the rear door and was wearing a three-piece suit. He spoke only to state his address and his date of birth.

No plea was required to be entered at this hearing and the case has been committed to Hull Crown Court for a first hearing on Wednesday, August 13, before Judge John Thackray KC. Bush has been bailed from court with conditions until this date.

The charges are related to a Humberside Police investigation during which bodies and ashes were removed fro funeral parlour premises owned by the director.

They include 30 counts of preventing a lawful and decent burial and 30 counts of fraud by false representation in relation to the deceased recovered from the funeral premises.

These charges were alleged between April 20, 2023 and March 6, 2024. The fraud by false representation charges referred to each deceased person who was named in court.