Crisis staff found 'unforgivable scene' at Hull's Legacy funeral home

Warning: This article contains details some people may find distressing An "unforgivable scene of entirely human making". That is how Kevin Curreri, managing director of Kenyon International Emergency Services, described the scene that met crisis staff sent to Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull. Undertaker Robert Bush hoarded dozens of bodies and half a tonne of human ashes. It emerged he also gave families the wrong ashes while their loved ones' bodies were left at his site for months. Bush was the only individual charged in relation to events at the funeral home. Humberside Police removed 35 bodies and the ashes of 167 people from Legacy's parlour in Hessle Road following a "concern for care of the deceased" in March 2024. The BBC has discovered Bush also kept more than 1,000 items, including love letters, baby clothes and treasured possessions belonging to the dead and their families. Curreri's team is typically brought in by governments in the wake of natural disasters, plane crashes and terrorism incidents, but this time the six-strong team found itself deployed to Hull, tasked with helping reunite affected families with sentimental items collected by Bush. Curreri,