The police have sued a funeral investigation with 64 offenses in connection with an investigation into a hull -based funeral service accused of wrongly dealing with human remains.
Robert Bush, 47 from East Yorkshire, is accused of a total of 64 violations after officers had discovered 35 bodies, together with suspected human axis, on the company on Hessle Road in Hull in March 2024.
This includes 30 counts from preventing a legal and decent funeral, 30 counts of fraud by false representation, two counts of theft of charitable institutions, one count of fraudulent trade and one counting of fraud in relationships to human axis.
This follows a long -term investigation that has already shaken local communities, with different families that have been destroyed by the possibility that the remains of their loved ones may have been handled incorrectly.
Humberside Police confirmed that an extensive evidence file, consisting of more than 13,000 exhibitions, had been submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for consideration.
A third person was arrested as part of an investigation into a funeral stable accused of incorrect care for the dead. Shown: A police officer will be outside the company in March
The police restored 35 bodies of the Hessle Road site together with a quantity of axle in March
Flowers pay tribute to the deceased who were placed outside the Hessle Road branch of Legacy Independent Funeral Directors on 13 March
Deputy Chief Commissioner Dave Marshall said: 'On Wednesday, March 6, 2024, we received information about the care of the deceased at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in three buildings in Hull and the east -driving of Yorkshire.
'After the report, a complex, long -term and very sensitive investigation of 10 months started with a file of evidence that was submitted to the CPS on Thursday, January 16, 2025 to extensively assess.
'Today I can confirm that Robert Bush, formerly from Kirk Ella, East Yorkshire, is accused of a combined total of 64 violations in connection with the investigation.
“These charges include 30 counts from preventing a legal and decent funeral and 30 counts of fraud by false representation with regard to the deceased found from the funeral building, both between April 20, 2023 and March 6, 2024.”
The police have had close contact with the families of the 35 deceased, where officers informed them about the latest developments.
The Humberside police said they started visiting families in January as part of the enormous investigation into the remains found at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull.
Susan Stone's, 78, (photo) Body was still in the Legacy building with her name tag seven weeks after her death confirmed
Billie Jo is depicted who kisses her father's coffin. He died on July 9, 2022. She told the Daily Mirror newspaper in March: “I bet my father wasn't even in the coffin – it was an empty box”
Billie Jo Suffill is depicted next to her father Andy. She said earlier that she felt 'physically ill' after she had not received her father's ashes
Because of the high heat used to destroy the bodies, no DNA certificate could be restored from the axis, so that the families were traced by paperwork.
Officers searched the site, together with others on Anlaby Road and in Beverley after a report of concern about the storage and management of the bodies.
Since detectives have announced their research into the company, hundreds of families in Hull and East Yorkshire have been asked to wonder if they have the ashes of their loved ones, with some who say they have been told that they have absolutely the wrong remains.
One of the bodies discovered on the site was one of the very popular 78-year-old grandmother Susan Stone.
Her son Martin Stone, 52, told the post that her body should have been cremated.
But the family received a phone call from the Humberside police to inquire that Mrs. Stone's body was still in the Legacy building connected to her name tag seven weeks later.
It was to be dissolved to be identified and dental records were needed to perform the formal process before it was finally cremated.
A photo shows a branch of Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull on March 13
The furious father of two said at the time: 'I just wanted to take revenge because of what my mother happened, it's disgusting.
“I was smoking. Her body had been there for seven weeks. It had just been dumped there and was not even in a freezer. '
Other grieving family members spoke about their torment after the police had received more than 1,000 calls as part of an alleged scandal among the funeral directors.
Billie-Jo Suffill, a mother of three from Hull, said she felt 'physically ill' after she had not received her father's ashes.
The 33-year-old lost 52-year-old Andrew Songill in July 2022, and her brother Dwane Songill, 34, five days later.
She said: 'I got ashes back from my brother's funeral. But now I don't even know if they are his ashes. I never got anything from my father and now I will never do that. '
She told the Daily Mirror newspaper in March: 'I bet my father wasn't even in the coffin – it was an empty box.
“I kissed an empty box. When I think about it, it's disgusting. It's like something from a horror film. '
The Humberside police confirmed that more than 120 police and civilian staff were working on the 'extremely complex and sensitive investigation' in March.
Richard Shaw, from Woodmansey, near Hull, used the funeral center for the cremation of his wife Rita in October 2023. In December he received an urn through the company with what was told him, were her ashes.
But in March he was one of the families who heard that the ashes of his beloved was not in the urn, but was found in a mortuary in Hull Royal Infirmary.
Shaw said to the BBC about the latest development: 'I have to believe that these newest axis are ritas or I go crackers.
“I'm very angry.”
