Funeral director Robert Bush faces more harrowing victim accounts after being confronted by grieving mums

Funeral director Robert Bush faces more harrowing victim accounts after being confronted by grieving mums WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Robert Bush, who ran Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, was bravely confronted by a grieving mother whose son she entrusted to his care but whose remains were left on the floor for two years Shamed funeral director Robert Bush is due to sit through more harrowing testimonies from his victims today as he faces sentencing for more than 60 crimes spanning 12 years. Bush has pleaded guilty to 67 offences, having admitted 30 counts of preventing a lawful burial with the other 37 charges including fraud, fraudulent trading and theft. His sentencing hearing is set to take place over five days, concluding on Friday, with the judge expected to hear more than 100 victim impact statements. Among those already heard was that of Jasmine Beverley, whose son Sunny Beverley-Conlin, was found at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors on Hessle Road, run by Bush, in 2024 - almost two years after his family were given what Bush claimed were his ashes and a funeral was held for him. Baby Sunny's remains were uncovered after police were called to the site when directors of another funeral home had been asked by Bush to assist with a body recovery while he was on holiday in Arizona. Patrick Moore, a casual worker for Bush, had helped the men collect the body but said Bush had told him "not to bring anyone back to Legacy or help put a body into the fridge area." "You two don't know the half of it, bodies have been there for years," the court heard Mr Moore told the two men. This prompted them to ask Mr Moore how many bodies were there, with him counting up to 29 and describing it as something from a "horror scene". Mr Moore was persuaded to allow the pair into the site where they were "shocked" at what they saw and flagged down a passing police car. Officers found bodies stored on racks in a cold storage area, with most of them "uncovered and in varying states of deceomposition". Among the items found in the search was a brown paper bag containing a "tiny item" which the officer thought, at first, was a baby birds. But there were hospital wristbands around the baby's waist with the words: "Baby of Jasmine Beverley, born 13/05/22 at 05:04". Brave Jasmine addressed Bush directly at his sentencing hearing yesterday as he sat in the dock, saying: "I trusted you with the most precious person in my life. The reality I now live with is that my baby boy Sunny has spent more time in your possession than he ever did with his own family. "I have to live with the fact that my son was kept for so long without my knowledge, and that when he was eventually found he was in a brown paper bag on the floor. As a mother, that is something that will stay with me for the rest of my life." Fighting back the emotion, she went on to tell Bush: "My son Sunny was born sleeping, but he was loved long before he entered this world an dhe will be loved for the rest of my life. He deserved dignity. He deserved respect. He deserved to be treated with care and compassion. That is all I ever asked for. Sunny deserved better. Our family deserved better." The sentencing is set to conclude on Friday. Bush, formerly of Kirk Ella, East Yorkshire, and now of Otley, West Yorkshire, was remanded in custody on Monday for the duration of his sentencing.