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Funeral director Robert Bush faces sentencing after admitting 67 offences, including giving families wrong ashes, preventing 30 burials and stealing mourner donations. Linsey Smith had more details on #BBCBreakfast

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Funeral director Robert Bush has been jailed for 20 years at Hull Crown Court after admitting 67 offences. Families affected have told Sky's Katie Barnfield of their anguish and fury. Read more:

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Robert Bush, a former funeral director, is facing jail after admitting to 67 offences, including 30 counts of preventing the lawful burial of a body. Police found 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes at his premises. The remains of a stillborn baby were also discovered in a brown paper bag nearly two years after the family believed the baby had been cremated. Families were also given ashes that belonged to other people.

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GB News National Reporter Sophie Reaper shares details from the first day of victim impact statements ahead of the sentencing of former funeral director Robert Bush, who has pleased guilty on 67 offences.

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"The distress and devastation that this has caused for those families is simply unimaginable." Humberside Police Detective Superintendent, Alan Curtis, reacts after funeral director Robert Bush changes pleas to admit to preventing 30 burials. 📺 Sky 501

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Funeral director Robert Bush has pleaded guilty to 30 counts of preventing a lawful and decent burial. He gave grieving families the ashes of strangers while leaving bodies in a warehouse. Police found 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes after raiding the premises.

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Labour MP Emma Hardy tells Sarah-Jane Mee that victims of funeral director Robert Bush have called for regulation and inspection of funeral homes, as there are none. Bush, 48, has been charged with 64 offences, including fraud, theft, and preventing a lawful and decent burial.

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Robert Bush gave grieving families the wrong ashes, left bodies to rot in his parlour for months, sold sham funeral plans, and pocketed charities donations from mourners in a scandal spanning 12 years. When police raided Legacy Independent Funeral Directors, in Hull, in March 2024, they found 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes. One body had been there for a year. At Hull Crown Court today, Bush admitted 30 counts of preventing a lawful and decent burial. The 48-year-old had earlier admitted one count of theft from 12 charities, presenting families with the ashes of strangers and fraudulently selling funeral plans. Bush, who was abused as he left court, is due to be sentenced on 27 July.

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'Don't take risks when it comes to choosing a funeral director' Andrew Judd from the National Association of Funeral Directors spoke to #BBCBreakfast after undertaker Robert Bush pleased guilty to hoarding dozens of bodies and half a tonne of human ashes at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull

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Robert Bush has admitted 67 offences including failing to bury and cremate people. The sentencing is set to last several days because there are so many heartbroken families, standing up in court to read their victim statements. Sky's Charlotte Leeming was inside court

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🚨”Party Mom” Shannon O’Connor Set to Be Sentenced After Conviction for Orchestrating Alcohol-Infused Sex Parties at Her Mansion Involving Over a Dozen Child Victims A mother convicted of turning her home into a site of abuse for over a dozen children ages 13–15 now faces decades in prison. THE PERPETRATOR Shannon O’Connor, 51 (also known as Shannon Bruga), of Los Gatos, was convicted on 48 felony counts. She faces more than 30 years in prison plus additional misdemeanors including child endangerment and furnishing alcohol to minors. THE CRIMES O’Connor was found guilty of facilitating the forcible sexual assault of one child on another child. Prosecutors accused her of watching boys sexually assault girls for her own gratification. She hosted the parties at her mansion, provided alcohol to children ages 13 to 15, and managed the events. VICTIM TESTIMONY At the sentencing hearing, victims and families spoke. Jane Doe: “It is beyond me. I can not comprehend how someone could do this. This represents who you are at your core… For me, what happened took away so many happy parts of who I was.” Doe’s mother: “She was taking weekly drink orders for these kids. She encouraged and managed sex acts. Our daughter was only 14 years old. She was quite innocent. Before the encounter with Shannon, she was sweet, silly, and full of joy.” STATUS O’Connor has been convicted on 48 felony counts. Sentencing is underway in Santa Clara County Superior Court.

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🚨”Party Mom” Shannon O’Connor Set to Be Sentenced After Conviction for Orchestrating Alcohol-Infused Sex Parties at Her Mansion Involving Over a Dozen Child Victims A mother convicted of turning her home into a site of abuse for over a dozen children ages 13–15 now faces decades in prison. THE PERPETRATOR Shannon O’Connor, 51 (also known as Shannon Bruga), of Los Gatos, was convicted on 48 felony counts. She faces more than 30 years in prison plus additional misdemeanors including child endangerment and furnishing alcohol to minors. THE CRIMES O’Connor was found guilty of facilitating the forcible sexual assault of one child on another child. Prosecutors accused her of watching boys sexually assault girls for her own gratification. She hosted the parties at her mansion, provided alcohol to children ages 13 to 15, and managed the events. VICTIM TESTIMONY At the sentencing hearing, victims and families spoke. Jane Doe: “It is beyond me. I can not comprehend how someone could do this. This represents who you are at your core… For me, what happened took away so many happy parts of who I was.” Doe’s mother: “She was taking weekly drink orders for these kids. She encouraged and managed sex acts. Our daughter was only 14 years old. She was quite innocent. Before the encounter with Shannon, she was sweet, silly, and full of joy.” STATUS O’Connor has been convicted on 48 felony counts. Sentencing is underway in Santa Clara County Superior Court.

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🚨#BREAKING: A bizarre story is unfolding in Houston TX where a transgender MAN "funeral director" is accused of stealing a dead man's ENTIRE $2.2 MILLION estate by forging a will and claiming to be the WIFE he never had. Then investigators say they found HUMAN ORGANS in a Home Depot bucket and BOXES AND BOXES of cremated remains just lying on the ground. The man's name was Lawrence Gammon. He was 78. He died naturally last summer. His out-of-state family did what any of us would do. They hired a funeral home, A Community Funeral Home in Houston, to give him a dignified send-off. They handed over his personal documents to get started. Prosecutors say that trust was a catastrophe. Weeks after Gammon died, they say the funeral operator... a transgender MAN pretending to be a WOMAN... Unique Green... filed a FORGED WILL, claiming to be his common-law WIFE and sole heir. A "woman" his family says they had NEVER heard of. Not only that, but he used it to try to seize his house, his vehicles, and his retirement accounts worth over $2.2 million. The family never even got the funeral they paid for. It gets worse. Green wasn't even a licensed funeral director. Investigators say Green FORGED documents to the state to get a license, falsely claiming to be a military veteran and an "exceptional embalmer." Never served. Never licensed. Running a funeral home anyway. When police raided the place, they say they found 48 BOXES of cremated remains, some belonging to families who'd been waiting for their loved ones since 2023 + human organs in a Home Depot bucket. And how did this person act walking out of court, facing FIVE felonies?!!!! "I'm a celebrity," Green told reporters. Then hurled insults. When asked about the organs in the bucket, Green sneered they "were for you to eat for lunch." Lock. Him. Up.

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