Cops probing funeral home where 35 bodies and human ashes were recovered submit file to prosecutors

POLICE probing a funeral home where 35 bodies and human ashes were recovered have submitted a file to prosecutors.

Officers suspect relatives were charged for cremations that never took place.

Robert Bush, 47, of Hull-based Legacy Funeral Directors was arrested last March on suspicion of fraud and prevention of a lawful burial.

The file of 13,000 exhibits, compiled in the ten months since, was handed to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Specialists will now decide whether or not to bring charges.

Humberside Assistant Chief Constable Thom McLoughlin described it as a “significant development”.

In July a woman, 54, was arrested on suspicion of money laundering.

She and Mr Bush remain on conditional bail.

A woman held in March faces no further action.

Julie Dunk, of the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management, said: “Anyone can set up as a funeral director with no training.

It’s time to have another look at this with perhaps a system of licensing and inspections.”