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Some victims of disgraced undertaker Robert Bush have not been refunded for bogus funeral plans he sold them, a court has heard.
The 48-year-old conned 172 people over 11 years out of £562,000, Hull Crown Court was told.
He has previously been charged with 67 offenses relating to his business, Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, including failing to bury and cremating people, stealing from 12 charities, falsifying funeral plans and fraud.
On the fourth day of a sentencing hearing, a woman said her parents, who each paid £2,649 for funeral plans, were not alive to “see the justice they deserved”. Another was not reimbursed £5,000 for two policies.
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Wiping her eyes with a tissue, Maxine Hill told Mr Justice Hilliard that the bank had refused to return the money fraudulently taken by Bush, whom Hill knew personally.
Bush visited both her parents, Margaret and John, at their homes and gave her mother a handwritten receipt to pay her in cash.
The bank initially refunded the money Hill’s father had paid but after 90 days the bank said there was “no evidence of non-receipt of product”, the court heard.
Both died – Margaret in May 2024 and John in June 2025.
