A funeral director has admitted to preventing 30 lawful burials and deceiving charities after police found Police found 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes at his funeral home in Hull.

Robert Bush, 48, pleaded guilty at Hull Crown Court to 30 counts of preventing a lawful and decent burial over bodies found at his business in 2024 after denying the charges.

Bush, who ran Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, had his business searched by police in March of 2024 where officers found 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes, one of the bodies had been there for a year. While Bush callously watched as grief-stricken families solemnly hugged, kissed or placed a hand on coffins as they said a final goodbye inside his no-frills crematorium

He also pleaded guilty to theft from 12 charities including the Salvation Army and Macmillan Cancer Support and to four “foetus allegations” of fraud, where he presented ashes to women falsely saying that they were “the remains of their unborn”.

Bush was bailed until his sentencing hearing on July 27.