Families in tears as vile funeral director Robert Bush who left bodies rotting wants to appeal sentence

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WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT - Robert Bush gave bereaved families the wrong ashes and left the bodies of 35 people — including a stillborn baby — decomposing at Legacy Funeral Services in Hull

Jailed funeral director Robert Bush has been accused of pouring “more agony” on his victims by appealing his sentence.

Families were left in tears after police broke the news to them on Wednesday. Bush, 48, the former boss of Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, was jailed for more than 20 years in July.

He had pleaded guilty to 67 criminal offences over 12 years. In one case, he kept a stillborn baby almost two years after his devastated family thought they’d held his funeral.

Bush, from Kirk Ella, East Yorkshire, was jailed for a total of 67 charges, including the prevention of a lawful and decent burial, fraud, fraudulent trading and theft.

After his sentence, four mums spoke to the Mirror about their double agony of losing children and then becoming the victim of an evil funeral director.

During his sentencing many of his victims told of suffering PTSD, having suicidal thoughts and ongoing trauma. They said Bush had treated their loved ones like a ‘piece of meat’ and one said she was plagued by nightmares of bodies piled up like

Humberside Police said: "We have been notified by the Criminal Appeal Office at the Royal Courts of Justice that Robert Bush has filed an application for leave to appeal against his sentence.

"The appeal will be considered through the appropriate legal process and any decision regarding the appeal will be a matter for the courts."

Campaigner Karen Dry, who has been supporting the families through the ordeal, said: “What a monster. I’m shocked and dismayed he is appealing. We said at sentencing no length of time would be long enough and here he is appealing a 20 year sentence. That man has no shame.

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