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A former funeral director has pleaded guilty to more than 30 fraud charges relating to human remains, including those of four unborn babies.
Robert Bush, 47, admitted 35 counts of false representation and one count of fraud in relation to funeral planning during a hearing at Hull Crown Court on Wednesday.
He also admitted four “fetal charges”, stating that he had presented the ashes to a client under the pretense that they were “the remains of his unborn”.
However, Bush pleaded not guilty to 30 counts of preventing a body from receiving a lawful and decent burial and one count of theft from 12 charitable organizations.
He is due to stand trial for those crimes at Sheffield Crown Court in October next year.
Most of the fraud charges stem from false representation allegations that he dishonestly made false representations to bereaved families that he:
- To take proper care of the remains of the deceased in accordance with the normal expected practices of a competent funeral director;
- Arrange for the cremation of those remains at or immediately following the conclusion of the funeral service;
- The ashes given to the customer were the remains of a deceased person after cremation.
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